It's the frog effect, James.

You put a frog in a pot of cold water and put it on the stove.
Frog won't know it's too hot 'til he's cooked.

Sam Earle
You're entitled to my opinion.
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Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 8:48:30 PM, you wrote:

> Thanks Marshall,

> I posted this to the list several months ago, and was curious why there was
> no response.

> The FDA is not what most people think; just like the rest of the
> "government".   You have no doubt heard of the "Codex Alimentarius" (sp?)
>   Originating from Austria, the source of our current "education" paradigm.
>  They the New/Old "world order" will make all vitamins and herbal extracts
> prescription.  Garlic extract is already a controlled substance in Canada.
>  This stuff is moving forward.... quietly and inexorably.

> And, they always use some reasonable issue to ratchet up the iron fist a
> notch or two.

> James Osbourne Holmes
> [email protected]


> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Marshall Dudley [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent:   Wednesday, October 13, 1999 9:00 AM
> To:     [email protected]
> Subject:        Re: CS>Graph comparison: ppm & conductivity.

> He said he was trying to use their digestall, which didn't work worth a
> darn.  I had been
> warned of that before and used the standard manual digestion method.  He
> said that he had
> Hach over to show that he was getting no results when he tested what the
> digestall
> produced, and to prove that there was indeed some silver in the colloid, he
> ran it without
> digestion, and lo and behold he got results consistant with the test
> results other labs had
> given.

> So he is not digesting before testing.  I plan on trying it today myself.

> He spoke a good deal on the Free Mexican Clinic that he is helping fund.
>  He indicated that
> about 75% of the patients get CS and many get only CS at that clinic.  He
> asked if I had
> anything I could donate to the Clinic.  I think what he is doing is great.

> We spoke a little about the FDA.  He dislikes the FDA as much as I do, but
> said that he
> thinks that the latest ruling is correct and is happy to see it.  I don't
> agree, I see it
> as just one step in a series to deprive Americans of economical, healthy
> and risk free
> medical alternatives to expensive, non-working and deadly procedures.

> Marshall

> James Osbourne, Holmes wrote:

>> Please relay the results of your conversation with Bruce.  I try to call
> him sparingly.
>>
>> James Osbourne Holmes
>> [email protected]
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:   Marshall Dudley [SMTP:[email protected]]
>> Sent:   Tuesday, October 12, 1999 12:01 PM
>> To:     [email protected]
>> Subject:        Re: CS>Graph comparison: ppm & conductivity.
>>
>> I will have to get with Bruce on this. He is the one that put me onto
> Hach in
>> the first place and at the time was using digestion. The method he used
>> required sulfuric acid, and produces silver sulfate which is almost
> insoluable,
>> so I went back to Hack and they gave me a procedure that uses Nitric Acid
> only.
>>
>> I am calling Bruce now to see if he has changed his procedure.
>>
>> Marshall
>>
>> James Osbourne, Holmes wrote:
>>
>> > If I may interject....
>> >
>> > Using the Hach silver chemistry, Bruce found that the digestion
> process,
>> > which involves all sorts of nasty stuff, produced erratic results with
> CS.
>> >  This was verified by a Hach tech rep. present at Bruce's lab.
>> >
>> > They decided that the process works reliably without the digestion.
>  That
>> > is the method which I use to measure mg/L-PPM.  I think it is also the
>> > method used by Bob Berger.   Bob, Bruce, and myself have very close
> results
>> > with the same samples.
>> >
>> > If someone is doing the Hach test with digestion, can I send you a
> sample
>> > to see how well they correlate.  I will reciprocate with your sample if
> you
>> > like.
>> >
>> > I have yet to get an ISE [R&D funding limitations].   I think the
> "charge
>> > per cluster" theory is probably correct.  Has anyone ever discussed
> this in
>> > detail with an ISE manufacturer?
>> >
>> > James Osbourne Holmes
>> > [email protected]
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From:   Marshall Dudley [SMTP:[email protected]]
>> > Sent:   Tuesday, October 12, 1999 9:19 AM
>> > To:     [email protected]
>> > Subject:        Re: CS>Graph comparison: ppm & conductivity.
>> >
>> > Ivan Anderson wrote:
>> >
>> > >  PPM reading was supplied by a silver Ion Selective Electrode.
>> > > Water was Purified Water BP and read 1uS before electrolysis.
>> >
>> > Prior to purchasing our spectrophotometer and silver kit, I check into
>> > using a
>> > silver ion selective electrode for measuring ppm.  I was told that it
>> > measures
>> > the number of ions (amount of charge) assuming the normal mobility of
>> > silver
>> > ions, and that silver colloid would not produce a correct measurement
> due
>> > to
>> > there typically being less charge on each particle than the number of
> atoms
>> > in
>> > the particle, and due to the mobility being different than for one ion.
>> >
>> > To use it properly one has to digest the silver so that you have silver
>> > nitrate first, then use the probe on the residual silver nitrate.  This
> is
>> > exactly the same process I have to go through with the
> spectrophotometer
>> > for
>> > ppm measurements.
>> >
>> > I was wanting to verify that you were indeed digesting the colloidal
> silver
>> > before using the probe.  If so this is a very interesting set of
> curves.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Marshall
>> >
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