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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16202, 12 April 1916, Page 5

STOMACH MEDICINES ABE DANGEROUS.

DOCTORS NOW ADVISE MAGNESIA.

Just haw 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 deso of some special mixture or to take tablets 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., indicates excessive acidity of the stomach and fermentation of tho 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 bo obtained from tho 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 j the stomach and prevent all possibility ! of tho food fermenting.—(Advt.)