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Otago Witness, Issue 3247, 7 June 1916, Page 24

IF FOOD DISAGREES DRINK HOT WATER. When food lie 3 like load in tha stomach and you have that uncomfortable, distended feeling it is because of insufficient blood simply to the stomach, combined with acid and food fermentation. In such cases try the plan now followed in many hospitals, and advised by eminent specialists, of taking hair a teaspoonful of bisurated magnesia, in half a glass of water as hot as you can comfortably drunk it. The hot water draws the blood to the stomach, and the bisurated magnesia, as an3 r physician or chemist can toll you. instantly neutralises the acid and slop/ the food fermentation Try this simple plan, and you will bo astonished at the immediate feelinj? of relief and comfort that always follows the restoration of the normal process of digestion. Soldiers at the front and travellers, who are frequently obliged to take hasty meals poorly prepared, should always tako two or three five grain tablets of bisurated magnesia after meals to prevent fermentation. and neutralise the acid. —Advt.

Owing- to so many of the engineering staff of tho Public Works Department liaring- left for the front, it has fo far been impossible to complete the surveys of the alternative routes of the Rimutaka railway deviation.