Here's a message I wrote back in March when this question was discussed: ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Subject: Argyria and blue people Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:01:44 -5
Regarding Joyce's concerns about argyria, Donna wrote: > Joyce, > I had this fear awhile ago about the skin turning colors. From > what I have read there is the one documented case on the net, other > than that I don't think anyone on this list is blue yet. I assume you're talking about the article about the blue lady that's at: http://www.tomifobia.com/previous/rosemary.html Or her anti-silver advocacy site at: http://homepages.together.net/~rjstan/ Just how well this information documents her case is altogether unclear. She turned blue because of silver containing nose drops that were prescribed by the family doctor when she was a young woman. Nowhere does she tell us anything about the medicine she took other than that it contained silver. Apparently she doesn't even know... "A biopsy confirmed the diagnosis showing all the little specks of silver in my skin. Unfortunately, that is the only information that I have ever been able to get about the drug that disfigured me. No one ever sued doctors back then." We are not told how much she took, what concentration it was, how it was prepared. Only that it contained silver. Some of the articles talk as if it was CSP (colloidal silver protein), others are more vague. She very nicely documents the astounding disarray of claims and counter-claims, misinterpretations and misrepresentations that characterize colloidal silver marketing. She points up the incestuous intertwining of endorsements and the antiquity of "research" that would cause any thinking person to be skeptical. So where's the proof? There IS NONE! There is no more rock solid scientific proof of her claims about the danger of "modern" colloidal silver products than there is for their efficacy or safety. Yes she's blue. We sort of know why. It had something to do with silver. Some here were seriously ill and are better now. We sort of know why. It had something to do with silver. None of us are blue. Yet. Before I accept her story and reject colloidal silver, she'll have to do better than this. Before others will accept colloidal silver as we do, we'll have to do better as well. > I have been taking it for quite some time now and at substantial > amounts and so far I am still pink. I guess time will tell. > Donna Earnest And just how "substantial" are those amounts when compared with the amounts known to be necessary to cause argyria? Or the amount of silver Rosemary consumed? The debunkers would rather people not know the answer to that question. My own reason for being here is to try to make sense out of the sorry mess of supposed "research", and prove to myself whether there is something of value in CS. I'm just as skeptical as these others, only I see the small core of legitimate claims that does not evaporate under the light of reason. I want to know why. Rosemary Jacobs' story is tragic. I am sad for her. It appears she has become a zealot for whom any silver is bad silver. That I can understand. But I don't have to accept her view without question. Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
