There is a vast literature on the pharmacology of silver reviewed in Hill and Pillsbury' Argyria & The Pharmacology Of Silver, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1939. Both colloidal and non-colloidal silver pharmacological effects are reviewed.
A typical investigation was that of Archard and Wail, Arch. de Med. Exper. & d'Anat. Path., 12, 319, 1907. mentioned in the fourth chapter of Hill & Pillsbury, The Pharmaco-Physiologic Effects Of Silver Administration. Archard and Wail did early work on colloidal silver, years before Searle's acclaimed clinical treatise of 1919. Archard and Wail investigated the effect of colloidal silver on white blood cell counts, red blood cell counts, bone marrow, Malpighian corpuscles, splenic pulp and the thymus gland and other effects. Best regards, Matthew
