HOW TO STOP TAB IN STOMAOH.
THE VALUE OP MAGNESIA AND HOT WATER. Generations of people hare employed hot water as a soother of pain in the stomach, but modem physicians and specialists have discovered and used successfully an addition which renders the hot water trebly efficacious. Hoc water is still recommended in all cases of stomach pain, from whatever cause arising, but still bettor results are obtained if a little bisuratod magnesia is added. Hot water attracts blood, to the painful part and the bisurated magnesia neutralises the acid, which, is usually the underlying cause of the pain. That is why such excellent results follow combination of the two. Readers who are subject to pain in the stomach, especially after eating, should try this hot water and magnesia recipe. It renders dieting quite unnecessary, for by slowly drinking half' a glassful of hot water containing half a teaspoonful of bisurated magnesia immediately after meals, the dangerous stomach acids are destroyed, and food remains bland and sweet until perfectly digested. The bisurated magnesia, which is extensively used in hospitals, can readily be obtained from chemists everywhere; hut to avoid confusion with tho acetates, citrates and oxides of magnesia or equally unsuitable mixtures of bismuth and magnesia, it is important that bisurated should >ba di&tiacfJj* Co!i3.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19810, 29 November 1919, Page 2
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215Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Star (Christchurch), Issue 19810, 29 November 1919, Page 2
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