This subject keeps cropping up in various posts and I would like to venture my own opinion.
First I have the following quote: While studying regeneration of limbs, spinal cords and organs in the late 1970s, Robert O.Becker, M.D., author of The Body Electric, discovered that silver ions promote bone growth and kill surrounding bacteria. The March 1978 issue of Science Digest, in an article, "Our Mightiest Germ Fighter," reported: "Thanks to eye-opening research, silver is emerging as a wonder of modern medicine. An antibiotic kills perhaps a half-dozen different disease organisms, but silver kills some 650. Resistant strains fail to develop. Moreover, silver is virtually non-toxic." The article ended with a quote by Dr. Harry Margraf, a biochemist and pioneering silver researcher who worked with the late Carl Moyer, M.D., chairman of Washington University's Department of Surgery in the 1970s: "Silver is the best all-around germ fighter we have." Now that is a quite definite statement the truth of which may be hard to confirm. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that prior to the discovery of penicillin and the ensuing spate of "wonder drugs" silver was used against all sorts of infections - there may well have been 650 - but there doesn't seem to be any positive proof that it CURED them and that is a step that appears to have been taken in some quarters. Hopefully I haven't been flogging a dead horse but my two-penn'orth. Terry -- 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] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
