Please allow me to make several observations on the Rosemary Jacobs case.

First, it may be safely presumed that Mrs. Jacobs was not the ONLY person in 
the world who took this nasal medication. There are likely millions of others 
who took it. But if the product she took is the cause of her color change, then 
where are the millions of blue people as could be the only valid evidence of 
such a claim? Mrs. Jacobs is guilty of "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc", i.e., 
"after this, therefore because of this", i.e., I drank milk and got cancer.... 
ergo milk is a carcinogen. 

Second, and along the same lines, if Mrs. Jacobs claim is true, WHERE are the 
millions of blue people today who should be turning blue from the use of this 
dangerous colloidal silver? Its use is exploding, yet where are all the blue 
people? Were her story true, the totalitarians at Washington D.C. would have 
made a separate status for them as "people of color", and have extended special 
rights and status to them. 

Third, suppose there is some validity to her claim, but that it is only a 
remote possibility that these substances can cause this effect. Then must we 
not trace the effect to some other cause, or combination of causes, and not 
ONLY to colloidal silver? Suppose that colloidal silver causes this effect when 
combined with other substances? Is that a valid justification to vilify its 
use? If so, then we ought to ban chlorine bleach, because if added to ammonia 
it makes a deadly gas that will kill you. Or suppose that some pre-existing 
health complication causes the body to  fail to properly metabolize the CS such 
that it causes this resulting pigmentation, will the disinterested enthusiasts 
at the FDA ban Tylenol because it shouldn't be taken during pregnancy? Until 
such factors can be determined, it is obvious that CS cannot bear the blame for 
the result. 

It appears to me that the whole claim is utterly invalid, and that it is just 
one more attempt to exterminate a powerful competitor to pharmaceutical 
interests who cannot patent those substances that HEAL. God made healing 
substances such that they are natural, and therefore unable to be patented, so 
as to evict such people imposing themselves in oppression. Such men, therefore, 
attempt to overthrow his order.

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From:   Michael C Slivinski [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent:   Sunday, June 21, 1998 8:36 AM
To:     [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject:        Re: Colloidal Silver (The Jacobs story)

Hello All and for Nancy, here is the ref refered to below:

http://www.tomifobia.com/previous/rosemary.html

mike slivinski

At 07:30 PM 6/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Is this the "blue lady?"  If not, please site a reference;
>I'd like to see this page.
>
>If it's the woman I'm thinking of, I don't think she used
>colloidal silver.  I think it was a
>prescription silver salt in which case the ppm
>(concentration) and the particle size would have been far
>greater than that of the CS we generally refer to here.
>What we take is not much higher than what's considered
>acceptable for daily silver derived from water and foods we
>eat.
>
>Presenting CS as though it is the same as silver salts is
>like saying a raisin is the same as a prune.  I read a whole
>medical article about the supposed dangers of CS, but there
>was no real data pertaining to CS; it all was evidence based
>on silver salts and protein silver in high concentrations.
>(The reference is on my web page, it's a review of
>literature by Fung, et. al. from the Journal of Toxicology.)
>
>Sincerely,
>Nancy
>
>http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/silver-works (get a free
>web page there if you can use one.)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael C Slivinski <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>Date: Saturday, June 20, 1998 1:00 PM
>Subject: Re: Colloidal Silver (The Jacobs story)
>
>
>>Hello All,
>>I looked at Rosmary Jacob's, Web Page, and just wanted to
>comment that it is
>>interesting that they site the many cases of success using
>CS as anecdotal.
>>
>>But when they site her case it is not considered anecdotal
>in the sense of:
>> (where are the many others cases like hers that have had
>experienced cs
>>poisoning - argyric).
>>
>>It is important to know what else she took during her
>period of illness
>>that might be giving her this appearance/symtoms through
>the years.
>>
>>We know certain medications and herbal combinations cause
>side effects and the
>>doctor wants too blame the herbs and the nutritionists want
>to blame the drugs.
>>
>>It is both obviously... well, maybe not obvious to some
>people.
>>
>>Just a side story.... a friend of mind did some serious
>carrot jucing and his
>>skin turned an almost light brown orange color and he was
>seeing a doctor for
>>a required physical checkup and the doctor says... oh the
>color is the carrot
>>pigment in his body. My friend says... gee! a friend of
>mine jucies a lot of
>>spinach and greens and his skins not green!!
>>
>>Thanks mike slivinski


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