DYSPEPTION IN WELLINGTON

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 2, 2 July 1913, Page 10

DYSPEPTION IN WELLINGTON

PHYSICIAN TELLS WHAT TO ; EAT. lAND GIVES SOUND ADVICE TO' • ALL STOMACH SUFFERERS. A well-known medical practitioner recently made the startling statement that' a careful estimate shows that nearly. 60 per cent, of us have some degree of dyspepsia— that's about 36.000 people here in Wellington. When it was suggested tfiat 50 per Gent, is a pretty large percentage, the 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 . n6t ho was in earnest :—lf: — If 50 per cent, of the people of your town had just been exposed to smallpox, the whole town would be panic-stricken, and yet such exposure probably would not Causa anywhere nearly as many deaths as will be caused, in time, by complications following mild cases of dyspepsia that are being neglected right at this moment. One drink of whisky doesn't make a drunkard. One day's negket of a mild attack of dyspepsia isn't going to kill anybody. But nearly everyone neglects an abnormal condition of the stomach for months or years before becoming conscious of being an actual victim of real dyspepsia. And neglect, from that time on, can do damage pretty fast. Ifc may lead to stomach ulcers or cancer, and terminate fatally. The enormous amount of dyspepsia, and its alarming increase from year to Jear, are due to the fact that we don't live normal lives. It's not normal to eat fast, to eat ultra-fancy foods, to sit all day at a desk, to live an inactive indoor life, etc. These abnormal conditions of living cause hyperacidity of the stomach. That means an excess of acid in the stomach contents. That excess leads to dyspepsin, indigestion, belching, distress after eating, wind, acid stomach, etc. For the cure of any of these troubles, 1 prescribe, first of all, the use of some common-sense. Don't starve or go off afljj freak diet, but eafc moderately, avoid fancy dishes, go light on stimulants, and see if you can't get a little more exercise. Don't take any pepsin or patent medicines or drugs to act on the stomachy but go to your chemist and get a little ordinary Lisurated magnesia, and take one-half to one teaspoonful in a little hot or cold water after each meal. The bisurated magnesia is an antacid. Ifc is not to act on the stomach at all, but to act entirely upon the contents of the stomachto neutralise the excess acid." That is -the way to get rid of your dyspepsia, indigestion, etc., and keep out of danger of developing stomach ulcers or cancer. —Advt. .Creffie Tokalon, absolutely the test ntfn-greasy vanishing cream; beautifies the skin and removes wrinkles. At all chemists.— Advt.