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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1792, 3 July 1913, Page 11

38,000 DYSPEPTICS IN WELLINGTON.

PHYSICIAN TELLS WHAT TO EAT, AND GIVES SOUND ADVICE TO ALL STOMACH SUFFERERS. A well-known medical practitioner recently made the startling statement that a careful estimate shows that nearly 5G per cent, of us have some degree of dy;s-pepsia-that's about 38,000 people here in 'Wellington. When it was suggested that 50 per cent, is a pretty large percentage, tho doctor, seeing that he was not being taken quite seriously, spoke as follows, and with emphasis that at once dispelled all doubt as To whether or not he- was ill earnest: —If 50 per cent, of the peopU of your town liad just been exposed tc smallpox, the tfliole town would be name stricken, and yet such exposure probablj would not cause anywhere nearly as mani deaths bs will bo caused, in time, by com plications following: mild cases of dys pepsin that are being neglected right a' this moment. One drink of whisky doesn make a drunkard. One day s neglect o a mild attack of dyspepsia isn't going ti kill anybody. But nearly everyone neglect an abnormal condition of the stomach fo months or years before becoming consciou of being an actual victim of real dys pepsia, And neglect, from tliat time 011 ran do damage pretty fast. It may leai to stomach ulcers or cancer and tenninat fatally. 'The enormous amount of dys pepsia and its alarming increase fron year to year are due to the fact that w don't live normal lives. It's not norma to eat fa9t, to eat ultra-fancy foods, t Bit all day at a desk, to live an inactiv imloor lite, etc. These abnormal condl tions of living cause hyperacidity of th ' stomach. That means an escess of acid i: the stomach contents. Tlmt excess lead to dyspepsia, indigestion, belching, dis tress after eating, wind, acid stomacl: etc. For the cure of any of the; troubles I prescrib3, first of all, .the .lis of some common sense. Don't starve or g en any freak diet, but fat avoid l'ancv dishes, go liglit on stinui lant.s, and see if you can't get a littl more exercise. Don't take any pepsin o patent medicines or drugs to net 011 th stomach, but go to your chemist ami gt a little ordinary bisurated magnesia, an take one-half to 0110 teaspoonful in a littl hot or cold water after each meal. Th [ bisurated magnesia, is an anti-acid. It i not to act on the stomach at all, but t act entirely upon the contents of th stomach—to neutralise the excess aoi't That is the way to get rid of your dy: pepsia, indigestion, etc., and keep out c danger of dovclopltit' stomach ulcers.« ctuicer.—Advti