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Otago Witness, Issue 3149, 22 July 1914, Page 59

MYSTERIOUS STOMACH TROUBLES. PRINCIPAL CAUSE REVEALED. A great deal of mystery is made .about stomach troubles, and many people go m * constant dread of life-long incapacity or the horrors of the operating table just because they experience pain in the region of the stomach for -which they cannot account. Instead of looking for the cause of the trouble, they seem only too ready to describe themselves as “martyrs to mdigession” or “chronic dyspeptics.” Excessive acidity is said to be the direct cause of more than 90 per cent, of all stomach troubles, and, according to many eminent physicians, the occasional use of » reliable antacid, such as half a tcaspoonful of pure bisurated magnesia in a little water after meals, will do more towards righting stomach derangements than all the patent foods and medicines ever invented, because this get as the root of the trouble —stops fermentation of the food contents, and mitral ises the acids which otherwise would irritate and inflame the stomach.—AdvL