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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15079, 29 November 1919, Page 10

HOW ttf STof> PAIN IN STPMAI3H. v , : THE - VALUE OF VM AGNESIA AND ■_■ V ■"- HOT ■.•;..'■■ Genei-atioWs of people ' llav© employed hot. water asya soother, of i>ain m the. .stomach; "but, modern physicians and speo'ia'lists Kayo discovered and used suceessful'ly aw addition \yKich ! i^eiiders tho hot- water trobly efficacious:' Hot water is still recommended m all cases of stomach pain, from whatever cause arising, I>ut still better results are obtained if a little bisurated magnesia id ' added' Hot water attracts tydod to the paHitful part and -.the bisiirated magnesia neutralises the aoid, wliich is usually. the'' underlying, cause of .the pain, Tliat is .why such excellent results follow combination of-vthei^oi. Readers who aro object to,, pain.m th© stoniacli, especially a.f ter 'eating; diottld try this- hpb- water and ..mag-, ueaia .reciper . < It renders .dieting quite) •unnecessary) for : by /^slowly drinkii*tg ..lValf > a glassful' :of hot water op* taimng^ hailif a .teaspoonful of bisiu-ated -raagnesJial imiiii'e- . diately."a.fteraneu's, thbd^/^ious atom--laeh acids; are destroyed, andVfood remains bland land sweet timtil perfectly digested;. The bkurated '.magnesia,, wliich *is, extentsively -used in-bpspitals, can "be obtaahed from chemists evierywheire;. but to avoid confus-ion with- the acetates, citrates, aaid oxides of magnesia, or equally- -unsuitable mixtures of, -bismuth aud magnesia, it is important that bisurakd fcliould laj aelied for very dktiactly.