STOMACH MEDICINES ARE DANGEROUS.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1916, Page 4

STOMACH MEDICINES ARE DANGEROUS.

DOCTORS NOW ADVISE MAGNESIA

Just how dangerous ifc is to indiscriminately dose the stomach with drugs and medicines is often not realised until too late. It seems so simple to swallow a dose of some special mixture or to take tab-, lets of some so-called remedy or other after meals, and the folly of this drugging is not apparent until perhaps years afterwards. Regrets are then unavailing ; it is in the early stages, when indigestion, dyspepsia, heartburn, flatulence, etc., indicate excessive acidity of the stomach and fermentation of the food contents, that precaution should be taken. Drugs and medicines are unsuitable and often dangerous—they have as a rule little or no influence upon the harmful acid, and that is why doctors are discarding them and advising sufferers from digestive and stomach trouble to get rid of the dangerous acid and keep the food contents bland and sweet by taking a little bisurated magnesia -instead. Bisurated magnesia is an approved antacid, which can readily be obtained from the chemist. It is practically tasteless, and half a teaspoonful taken in a Untie warm or cold water after meals will usually be found quite sufficient .to instantly neutralise excessive acidity of the stomach and prevent all possibility of the food fermenting.— Advt.