DYSPEPTICS SHOULD DRINK MORE HOT WATER.
AVhen food lies like load iw th© stomach, and you have that uncomfortable, distended feeling, if is.because of insufficient blood supply to the stomach. - combined, with acid and food fermentation. In such cases try the plan now followed in many hospitals and advised by eminent specialists of taking half a. teaspoonful of bisurated magnesia in half a glass of water as hot as you can comfortably drink" it. The hot water draws the blood to the stomach, and the bisurated magnesia, a« any physician or chemist can tell you, instantly neutralises the acid and stops'the food fermentation. Brv this simple plan und you will !>o astonished at; the immediate feeling' of relief atml comfort that always follows i lie rest oration of the normal process of digestion. But be , always follows the restoration of the normal process of digestion. But he sure you ask the chemist very distinctly for bisurated magnesia, thus avoiding confusion with the sulphates, citrates or bismuth and magnesia mixtures which are often unsuitable. Soldiers at the front and travellers who are frequently obliged to take hasty meals poorly prepared should always take two or three fivegrain tablets of bisurated magnesia after meals to prevent fermentation and neutralise the^adLd..
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 6 February 1918, Page 5
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