If indeed the 1987 article is the source of the report of renal damage by silver, perhaps it can be disregarded. Refer to the December 1990 report Toxicological Profile For Silver, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, United States Public Health Service, Chapter 1, Section 4, "How Can Silver Affect My Health," pp3-4. It states:
"There have been suggestions in some occupational studies in humans that silver can cause kidney problems; however, more people exposed to silver need to be studied to find out if silver causes these effects." Since the 1987 publication was published in an industrial medicine journal, the form of silver might have been refinery fumes, not EIS. I have not read or found the 1987 article (yet.) Also, there may have been confounding factors, such as cadmium or other heavy metal contaminants, in the industrial episode. If so, this would explain the U.S. Public Health Services' apparent dismissal of the 1987 report. Matthew
