Page 2 Advertisements Column 5

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1916, Page 2

STOMACH MEDICINES ARE DANGEROUS. DOCTORS NOW ADVISE MAGNESIA. Just how dangerous it is to indiscriminately dose the stomach with drugs and medicines is often not realised until too late. It seems so simple to swallow a dose of some special mixture or to take tablets of some so-called remedy or other after meals, and the folly of this drugging is not apparent until perhaps years afterwards, Regrets are then unavailing; it is in the early stages, when indigestion, dyspepsia, heartburn, flatulence, etc., indicates excessive acidity of the stomach and fermentation of the food contents, that precautions should be taken. Drugs and medicines are unsuitable and often dangerous--they have as a rule little or no influence upon the harmful acid, and that is why doctors are discarding them and advising sufferers from digestive and stomach trouble to get rid of the dangerous acid and keep the food contents bland and sweet by taking a little "bisurated" magnesia instead. , Bisurated -"magnesia is an approved antacid, which can readily be obtained from the chemist. It is practically tasteless, and half a teaspoonful taken in a little warm or cold water after meals will usually be found quite sufficient to instantly neutralise excessive acidity of the stomach and prevent all possibility of the food fermenting. KEEP YOUR BOWELS REGULAR. As everyone knows, the bowels are the sewerage system of the'body, and it is of the greatest importance that they move once each day. If your bowels become constipated, take " a dose of Chamberlain's Tablets just after supper, and they will correct the disorder. They, will keep you healthy by keeping vour hnwfila rejfiila*.