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Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 57

INSURING GOOD DIGESTION

IMPORTANCE OF PREVENTING FOOD FERMENTATION IN STOMACH.

Good digestion usually means good health. So long as the stot. ach does its w-orl properly disease can find no lodgment in the huinan system; the liver, kidneys, and intestines will perform their work perfectly and remain in perfect health; but interfere with the proper digestion of food and an unending train of troubles is set in motion. About tlie only thing that will upset the stomach and Interfere with the digestion ie an excess of aeid, usually caused by food fermentation. Food fermentation is duo to chemical action in the food itself. This fermentation causes the formation of gas, or wind, as well ns acid, resulting in the unnatural distention of the stomach and tho burning by the acid of the delicate lining of tln> stomach. Medicines and tonics cannot relievo this condition they usually make it worse. The ferment'dt : on and acid are to blame, and those must be overcome and prevented by taking after meals half a teaspoonful of bisurated magnesia in a little hot or cold water. Physicians recommend bisurated magnesia especially because it stops or prevents fermentation of food and neutralises the acid instantly, making it bland and . harmless, without irritating or upsetting the stomach in any way. Get a little bisurated magnesia from your chemist and try it the next time your food ferments and upsets your stomach. Note how quickly the acid is neutralised, and how soon you forgot that you have such a thing as a stomach. —Aclvt.

The secretary of the Royal Humane ■Society of Now- Zealand has (the Press states) received through Mr J. Hislop, Under-secretary of Internal Affairs, an- application for the recognition of the bravery show-n by Cecil Haslett on May 11, in attempting to rescue John M'Larcn 0» oh - rano from drowning in the Oroti, or New River, near Invercargill. At the inquest a rider was added to the verdict to the effect “ That it is desirous of placing on -coord the meritorious conduct of Cecil Haslett, who, while clad in gum bools and ordinary clothing, jumped into the swollen rive? Oreti end succeeded in bringing the deceased asnore.’