Page 8 Advertisements Column 4

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1918, Page 8

EOW TO STOP PAIN IN STOMACH. THE VALUE OF MAGNESIA AND HOT WATER. Generations of people have employed hot water as a soother of pain in the stomach, tout modern physicians and specialists have discovered and used successfully an addition which renders the hot water trebly efficacious. Hot water is still recommended in all cases of stomach .pain, from whatever cause arising 'but still better results are obtained if a little hisurated magnesia is added. Hot water attracts blood to the painful part and the bisurated magnesia neutralises the acid, which is usually the underlying cause of the pain. That is why such excellent results follow combination of the two. Readers who are subject to pain in the stomach, especially after eating, should try this hot water and magnesia recipe. It renders dieting quite unnecessary, for, by slowly drinking half a glassful of hot water containing half a tea«poonful of bisurated magnesia immediately after meals, the dangerous stomach .ncids are destroyed, and food remains bland and sweet until perfectly digested. The bisurated magnesia, which is extensive!)' -.isert in hospitals, can readily be obtained from chemists everywhere; 'but to avoid confusion with the acetates, citrates, and oxides of magnesia or equally unsuitable mixtures of bismuth and magnesia, it is important that 'bisurated should be asked for very distinctly. foods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/G, 2/