HOW DRUGS DELUDE DYSPEPTICS.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13932, 14 July 1917, Page 1

HOW DRUGS DELUDE DYSPEPTICS.

A MENACE TO HEALTH,

Dyspeptics who take drugs commit a crime against their health, for drugs do not euro dyspepsia, neither do they possess the power to. neutralise acid in- the stomach, which is the underlying cause of most forms of digestive and stomach trouble. Drugs may appear to give relief in somo cases of indigestion and dyspepsia, but that is because they numb the nerves of the stomach and render them Insensible to pain. Herein lies the chief danger; the symptoms of the trouble are covered up and hidden, while the cause of the trouble, that is, the acid in the ftomach—remains as active and as dangerous as ever, .and may in course of time cause gastric ulcers to form, Physicians have demonstrated over and over again that the stomach cannot regain strength or the digestive organs recover their power to function normally unless kept free from irritant acid, and this can be achieved with safety and certainty by taking half a teaspoonful of bisurated magnesia in ift little water immediately after every meal, It 1 can be relied u'pun to neutralise acid und prevent fomentation of the. food,

This method is now being employed by hospitals throughout the country With marked success, and we arc sure flic recipe will prove valuable to many of'mii' readers, No difficulty should be, experienced in obtaining the bisurated for it-is stocked, by high-class chemists v everywhere, but make sure that yon .the bisurated form of magnesia, for tin) oxide, sulphates,'and .citrates are quite unsuitable. H 194