Hi Mike et al, The article is: "Our Mightiest Germ Fighter" by Jim Powell Science Digest, March 1978
"Thanks to eye-opening research, silver is emerging as a wonder of modern medicine. An antibiotic kills perhaps a half-dozen different kinds of disease organisms, but silver kills some 650. Resistant strains fail to develop. Moreover, silver is virtually nontoxic." Best regards, Andy In a message dated 7/17/2008 12:13:02 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: <snip> Somewhere back in the darkest early days of the rediscovery of colloidal silver, somebody wrote an article in a magazing claiming that silver kills bacteria by interfering with the enzyme that controls the respiration (breathing) of the cell, causing it to suffocate. That article, whether accurate or not, has become the basis of thousands of web pages that re-state that claim with no more authority than "they've seen it somewhere else." Sadly, it's one of the signs of a copycat, me-too, I don't really know what I'm talking about but it sure sounds good website. Another clue is any mention of "CS kills 650 diseases," which is another claim from the same article. Such a process *may* play a role in CS' effectiveness, but if so it's not really explained fully anywhere I've seen. <snip> **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)
