MYSTERIOUS STOMACH TROUBLES.

Patea Mail, Volume XXXIX, 17 July 1914, Page 4

MYSTERIOUS STOMACH TROUBLES.

Principal Cause Revealed. A great deal of mystery is made about stomach troubles, and many people go in 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 indigestion” or “ chronic dyspeptics ” Excessive acidity is said to be the direct oauee of more than 90 per cent of all stomach troubles, and, according to many eminent physicians, the occasional use of a reliable antacid, such as half-ateaspoon-ful of pore 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 gets at the root of the trouble—stops fermentation of the food contents, and neutralises the acids which otherwise would irritate and indame the stomach.