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Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1918, Page 6

HOW TO. STOP PAIN DT STOMACH.

! THE VALUE OF MAGNESIA AND HOT WATER. Generations of people have employed hot water as a soother of pain in the stomach, but modern physicians and specialists have discovered and used successfully an addition which renders the, hot water trebly efficacious. Hat water is still recommended in all cases of stomach pain, from whatever cause arising, out still better results are obtained if a little bisiirated 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 wihy 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 fenders dieting quite unnecessary, for by elowly drinking half a glassful of' hot water containing half a teaspoonful of bisurated magnesia immediately after meals, the dangerous stomach acids are destroyed, and food remains Wand and-sweet until perfectly digested. Thebisurated magnesia, which is extensively .-used 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 bUurattd should be ask«d fox vwy dls- - .... —■■ ;