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Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1916, Page 6

HOW DRUGS DELUDE DYSPEPTICS. A MENACE TO HEALTH. Dyspeptics vho take drugs commit n. crime against their health, for.drugs do not cure dyspepsia, neither do Wiey possess the power to neutralise acid in the stomach, which is the underlying cause of most forms of digestive and stomach trouble. Drugs may appear to give rel'c: in some cases oi indigestion and dyspepsia, but that W because they numb the nerves of the stomach and render them insensible to pain. Herein lies the chief danger; the symptoms of the trouble arc co\cred up and hidden, while tjie cause of the trouble, that is, the acid in.the stomach —remains as active and as dangerous as ever, and may in course of time cause gastric ulcers to form. Physicians have demonstrated over ai'.u over again that the stomach cannot regain strength cr the digestive organs recover their power to function normally unless kept free from.■irritftlst acid, a.id this can be achievtd with safety and certainty by taking hat? teaspooaful c-f bisurated magnesia in a little water immediately after every meal. It can be ~„iiA,i ,„-,«». + n «i.,ti.',ji SE uc i(j and v) re . the- food. This method is now being employed by hospital? throughout*the country with marked sv.eccss, and we are sure the recipe will prove valuable to man?,' of our raider*. No difficulty should bo experienced in obtaining the bisurated magnesia, for it is stocked by high-c!css chemists everywhere, but make sure *.!; at you get the bisurated form of magnesia, for the oxides, sulphates, end citrates are^ite:rUßßaitab^, tl ;:,v.:;:. : ■■;,■::; : v :