STOMACH MEDICINES ARE DANGEROUS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17078, 29 January 1916, Page 7

STOMACH MEDICINES ARE DANGEROUS.

DOCTORS NOW ADVISE MAGNESIA. Just how dangerous it 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 taki tablets of s;ome socalled remedy or other after meals, and the folly of this drugging is not apparent until perhaps years afterwards. Regreto are then unavailing;, it is in the, early stages, when indigestion, dyspepsia, heartburn, flatulence, etc., indicates excessive acidity of the stomach and fermentation of the feed contents, that precautions should be taken. Drags and medicines are unsuitable and often dangerous—they have as a rale 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 magnesua is an approved antacid, which can readily be obtained from the chemist. It is practically tasteless, and half a teaspoonful taken in a little 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. 38-39