PRACTICAL PRESCRIPTION AGAINST STOMACH ACIDITY. (By a Specialist.)

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 57, 9 March 1915, Page 2

PRACTICAL PRESCRIPTION AGAINST STOMACH ACIDITY. (By a Specialist.)

! "• Nine«tenths of all cases of stomach trouble nowadays,' 1 says a leading specialist, " are caused by too much acid. In the beginning, the stomach itself is j not diseased, but if this acid condition : is allowed to continue, the acid is very | likely to eat into the stomach walls and j produce stomach ulcer or cancer, either of which may render a radical surgical operatioi. necessary, even to prolong life. Therefore, an ' acid stomach * is really a dangerous condition, and should be treated seriously, tt is utterly useless to take pepsin and ordinary stomach tablets. The excess acid mußt be. W6U> | trahsed by the administration of in efficient antacid. For this purpose phy* sicions nearly always recommend takihg half a teaßpoonful of bisurated magnesia in a little water after each meal. - Large quantities may be usrd if necessary, »s it is absolutely harmless. But be sure to get. the bisttrated magnesia, as other forniß of magnesia have not the same action in the stomach as the bisurated, and frequently do mom 'hal'tn than good."— Advt.