HOW TO STOP PAIN IN STOMACH.

Otago Witness, Issue 3348, 15 May 1918, Page 17

HOW TO STOP PAIN IN STOMACH.

THE VALUE OF MAGNESIA AND HOT WATER. Generations of people have employed hot water as a soother of pain in the stomach, but modern physicians and specialists have discovered and used successfully an addition which renders the hot water trebly efficacious. Hot water is still recommended in all cases of etomach pain, from whatever cause arising; but still better results are obtained if a little bisurated magnesia is added. Hot water attracts blood to the painful part and the bisurated magnesia neutralises tho acid, which is usually the underlying cause of tho pain. That is why such excellent results follow combination of the two. Readers who are subject to pain in the stomach, especially after cafelr.g. should try this hot water and magnesia recipe. It renders dieting quite unneces. eary, for by slowly drinking half a glassful of hot water containing half a. tea>poonful of bisurated magnesia immediately aftep meals, the dangerous stomach acids are destroyed, and food remains bland and sweet until perfectly digested. Tho bisurated magnesia, which is extensively used in hospitals, can readily be obtained from chemists everywhere; but to avoid confusion with the acetates, citrates, and oxides of magnesia, or equally unsuitable mixtures of bismuth and magnesia, it is important that bisurated should bo asked for very distinctly. 652

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