MYSTERIOUS STOMACH TROUBLES.
PRINCIPAL CAUSE REVEALED.
A great deal of mystery is made about «tomacb troubles, and many people- go in constant dread of life-long incapacity or the horrors of the operating "table, just because they experience pa.a in the region of the stomach, for which they cannot account. Instead of looking for tho causo of th. trouble, they tseem only too ready to describe the-iselves as u martyrs to indigcetion" or ."chronic dys^ptics." E__>ssivo acidity is said to be tho direct causo oi moro than 90 per cent. of all stomach troubles, and, according to many eminent physicians, the occasional use of a reliable autacid, euch as half a tcaspoonful of pure bisurated maguesia in a littlo water after meals, will do moro towards righting fetomacn derangements than all the pa-tent foods __d medicine, ever invented, because this got." at tho root of the trouble— &top_"~fermoutation of the food contents, and neutralise* the acids, which otherwise would irritate and inflamo the stoat .eh.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15022, 17 July 1914, Page 4
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