Fred makes a good point here. If it was because of the silverware, it'd be banned today or re-formulated just as toxic pewter has been changed so that it is safe.
Instead, we see that silver is widely available and has recently been sold in supermarkets around us (those buy a peice a week plans). "Blue blood" implies anoxia, perhaps caused by genetic heart disease, or "cold" blood. The wealthy also used to put lead on their skin to keep it white. Talk about heavy metal exposure! Just yesterday I found a neat old Rogers silver tablespoon with a pineapple design on it down at a river site that used to be a cotton mill recreation site and is still a favorite fishing spot on NE CT. It was barely tarnished or scratched; it must have been buried for some time and was uncovered by the flooding we had several weeks ago at the site. I don't even think it's silverplate; looks like solid sterling to me. I got to thinking that people on picnics would have been bringing their silverware back then; no plastic disposables like we use today! They ate with silver every meal! Nancy -----Original Message----- From: Fred Walter <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, April 11, 1998 2:19 PM Subject: Re: Color >>From: "Bruce K. Stenulson" <[email protected]> >>The 'Blue Bloods' of previous times derived their Argyria from eating >>with all silver utinsels, resulting in their bluish grey skin tone, as I >>understand it. > >I'd read that they were inbred, and were called 'blue bloods' because >of problems relating to the inbreeding. > >It's only lately, with the popularity of CS, that people have started >claiming that the 'blue bloods' label came from silver. > > fred > > >-- >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]> >
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