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- Chapter 3 -
The Silver Lining: Putting it all into perspective
PRE 1938 to 2001 DRUG HISTORY: COLLOID OF SILVER
Silver is getting a reputation for being the silver lining in the cloud for its impressive track record. It is the guardian angel of the so-called "heavy metals"
keeping company with lead, mercury, cadmium, and gold.
Unlike its heavy metal cousins, you’ll be relieved to know, silver is surprisingly non-toxic to people and animals. And unlike the other heavy metals, silver has been around as a successful medical and public health prescription of treatment dating back 6000 years!
We live in an age of miracle drugs that have replaced the prevalent awareness and endorsement of colloidal silver.
It’s time to get closely reacquainted with this guardian angel.
The first known silver colloidal suspension used as a medication dates as far back as 1896.
The germicidal properties of silver, although not
recognized as such, have been utilized since the
times of the ancient Mediterranean and Asiatic
cultures in surgical treatment of wounds and
broken bones. N.R. Thompson
The FDA has stated that because Colloidal silver is (by fifty years) a
pre-1938 drug, it may continue to be marketed. (Sept. 13, 1991, letter
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received from consumer safety officer Harold Davis, U.S., Food and Drug
Administration.)
Moreover, the FDA has no jurisdiction regarding a pure, mineral
element.
This is important documentation, in light of any other agency jurisdiction of regulation they might claim to have.
Listed below are the organisms as documented pre-1938 uses of silver particularly in a colloidal form:
1. Anthrax Bacilli
2. Appendicitis (post-op)
3. Axillae and blind boils of the neck
4. B. Coli
5. B. Coli Communis
6. B. Dysenteria
7. B. Tuberculosis
8. Bacillary Dysentery
9. Bladder Irritation
10. Blepharitis
11. Boils
12. Bromidrosis in axillae
13. Bromidrosis in Feet
14. Burns and Wounds of the Cornea
15. Cerebro-spinal Meningitis
16. Chronic Cystitis
17. Chronic Eczema of anterior nares
18. Chronic Eczema of metus of ear
19. Colitis
20. Cystitis
21. Dacryocystitis
22. Dermatitis suggestive of Toxemia
23. Diarrhea and Diptheria, Diplococcus
24. Dysentery
25. Ear infections
26. Enlarged prostate
27. Epiditymitis
28. Erysipelas
29. Eustachian tubes (potency restored)
30. Follicular Tonsillitis
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31. Furunculosis
32. Gonococcus
33. Gonorrhea
34. Gonorrheal Conjunctivitis
35. Gonorrheal Ophthalmia
36. Gonorrheal Prostatic Gleet
37. Hemorrhoids
38. Hypopyon Ulcer
39. Impetigo
40. Infantile Disease
41. Infected ulcers of the cornea
42. Inflammatory Rheumatism
43. Influenza
44. Interstitial Keratitis
45. Intestinal troubles
46. Lesion Healing
47. Leucorrhea
48. Meniere’s Symptoms
49. Nasal Catarrh
50. Nasopharyngeal Catarrh (reduced)
51. Edematous enlargement of turbinates without true hyperplasia
52. Offensive discharge of chronic suppuration in Otitis Media
53. Ophthalmology
54. Opthalmic practices
55. Para-Typhoid
56. Paramecium
57. Perineal Eczema
58. Phlegmons
59. Phlyctenular conjunctivitis
60. Pneumococci
61. Pruritis Ani
62. Puerperal Septicaemia
63. Purulent Ophthalmia of infants
64. Pustular Eczema of scalp
65. Pyorrhea Alveolaris (Riggs Disease)
66. Quinsies
67. Rhinitis
68. Ringworm of the body
69. Scarlatina
70. Sepsis
71. Septic Tonsilitis
72. Septic Ulcers of the legs
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73. Septicemia
74. Shingles
75. Soft sores
76. Spring Catarrh
77. Staphyloclysin (inhibits)
78. Staphylococcus Pyogenea
79. Staphylococcus Pyogens Albus
80. Staphylococcus Pyogens Aureus
81. Streptococci
82. Subdues inflammation
83. Suppurative Appendicitis (post-op)
84. Tinea Versicolor
85. Tonsilitis
86. Typhoid
87. Typhoid Bacillus
88. Ulcerative Urticaria
89. Urticaria suggestive of toxaemia
90. Valsava’s inflammation
91. Vincent’s Angina
92. Vorticella
93. Warts
94. Whooping Cough
95. More recent articles have described silver being used to treat: 96. Adenovirus 5
97. Aspergillus Niger
98. Bacillius Typhosus
99. Bovine Rotovirus
100.
Candida Albicans
101.
Endamoeba Histolytica
102.
Escherichia Coli
103.
Legionella Pneumophila
104.
Poliovirus 1 (Sabin strain)
105.
pseudomonas Aeruginosa
106.
Salmonella
107.
Spore-forming Bacteria
108.
Staphylococcus Aureus
109.
Streptococcus Faecalis
110.
Vegetative B. Cereus cells
Keep in mind that this list is representative of documented disease conditions and pathogenic agents against which colloidal silver was shown to be effective prior to 1938. This is a partial list of the 650 different disease-causing
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pathogenic microorganisms against which colloidal silver has demonstrated success.
DISCLAIMER:
1. Colloidal Silver is classified by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a Pre-1938 Drug as long as it is manufactured in the original manner, advertised, and labeled for the same use as in Pre-1938. We represent no other claims for colloidal silver.
2. Pre-1938 uses may not be represented, except as anecdotal events by persons intimately familiar with the claim, and may not represent us, our officers or associates in any post 1938 claims.
3. This informational article has been included to provide a documented overview of the known pre-1938 uses, advertisements, and manufacturing methods of a colloid of silver. The value, benefits, and results of colloidal silver are dependent on the age, general health, weight and the specific metabolism of the user. The responsibility for recommending specific dosage lies with the user.
BIOPROTECT TIP: As in the pre-1938 period, various applications continue to include oral, topical, injection, nasal, ear or eye drops and it
can be used on other sensitive tissues. Applications of Colloidal Silver are as varied as the injuries themselves because they are so friendly to soft tissues, the eyes and skin.
Though colloidal silver is inorganic and vitamin C is organic, there are similarities between them. True colloids of silver contain an electrically charged trace element of silver particles that remain suspended in a solution indefinitely.
Like vitamin C, if a person ingests more than is necessary, the excess silver is shunted out of the body through the mechanism of metal enzymes. You cannot overdose on true colloidal silver.
Colloids of silver that require a "stabilizer" indicate that the particles are too big and the charge cannot maintain the silver in a dispersed state.
In true colloids the charge keeps the particles evenly distributed and they do not settle out. Why? Because the particles of a true colloid of silver (1-100 billionth of a meter in size) are small enough not to be affected by gravity.
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Pre-1938 Silver potency for colloidal silver was as high as 500 parts per million, and that was in a laboratory environment. However, scientists of that period still diluted the product 10, 20 even 50 times in order to gain the optimum level.
Today, through modern technology colloidal silver particles can be produced so small they can be suspended in a clear water solution almost non-detectable to the human eye. A laser beam will show no deflection when passed through a pure suspended solution of Colloidal Silver in a dark room test.
The modern era of Silver usage began in 1893, when C. Von Nageli reported the first systematic investigation into the lethal effects of metals [especially silver]
towards bacteria and lower life forms.
The dichotomy is that only primitive life forms perish in the presence of oligodynamic silver. This silver is as toxic as the most powerful chemical disinfectants and amazingly with relative harmlessness to animal life and is therefore greatly respected as a powerful antibacterial drug.
The term "oligodynamic" means a solution in which the metal ion density is many grades of size below that which would be lethal to higher life forms.
From 1900 to the beginning of the modern antibiotic era - circa 1940 with the introduction of sulfa drugs - silver was one of the mainstays of medical practice in Europe and America.
The catalog of illnesses treated with antibiotics does not even begin to exhaust the published medical uses for Silver in Europe and America between the years 1900 and 1940. In 1939 Hill and Pillsbury listed 94 different exclusive silver preparations in use up to that time.
Unlike antibiotics, Silver is an "equal opportunity destroyer" because it doesn't discriminate -- it effectively kills germs of all major types: gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, spore-forming bacteria, fungi, yeasts, viruses and protozoal parasites.
Then came along a new era. Silver rapidly fell into neglect and the medical
'recall abyss', as it was replaced first by sulfa drugs, then penicillin (post WWII), and since then by hundreds of specialized antibiotics.
By the second half of the 20th century we seemed to gain ground on most of the ancient afflictions. By the late 1980's, antibiotics were so successful research slowed in the R & D department. We were lulled to sleep thinking that
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there was no longer any need for progressive development to keep up with the ages. By the 1990's the picture began to shift once more.
Due to an antibiotic-accelerated evolution of microbes, more and more germ species previously controlled by antibiotics began to develop ways to resist antibiotics. This in turn gave rise to so-called 'super-germs'.
The popularity of antibiotics lent itself to overuse by doctors due to patient demand, so much so that they were used for sickness where it was not prudent to do so and where they had no effect, that is, common viral diseases such as cold and flu.
Often patients failed to complete the full course of their prescribed antibiotics, which led to mutated strains of germs, germs that could recover and develop resistance to antibiotics. How well we know this vicious cycle. It has been witnessed over and over again in our lifetime with a cycle of infections that persist and only seem to come back more virulent than the first go round. To complicate matters, consider how the widespread use of low-level antibiotics in animal feed to increase farmer's profits (40% of U.S. antibiotics go into animal feed) have contributed to the development of increased antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. Some common (and dangerous) germs such as Staph aureus (found especially in hospitals) are now known to be resistant to all but one antibiotic-vancomycin - and soon are expected to be vancomycin-resistant as well.
Documented CDC research shows evidence that "in 1992, 13,300 hospital patients died [in the U.S.] of bacterial infections that resisted the antibiotics fired at them."
Thanks to NAFTA, widespread international air travel, eco-tourism to exotic third-world forests and islands, and massive migration of third-world immigrants to Europe and America, hosts of exotic diseases once isolated to small areas of the planet are now showing up all over the world. Malaria and the Ebola viruses as well as Shigella are surfacing once again in the U.S.
The most alarming synopsis that may present a need for a powerful, broad-spectrum anti-microbial such as silver is the late 1990's threat of bio-terrorism.
There is a good possibility, in light of the latest technology, that those supergerms, when released, have been produced in sophisticated bio-warfare labs, most likely genetically altered to make them resistant to the antibiotics normally used to treat that species of germ.
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The most popular antibiotics used to treat Anthrax are tetracycline, doxycycline and ciprofloxacin. Anthrax is the number one favorite pathogen of terrorists worldwide.
BIOPROTECT TIP: It is interesting to note that silver, both in liquid solution and as an airborne-aerosol, has been known since 1887 to be extremely toxic to Anthrax spores.
Medical literature reports various forms of silver, at surprisingly low concentrations, routinely kills germs that are known to be antibiotic-resistant.
Most antibiotics have an optimal effectiveness against only a few different disease germs; even broad-spectrum antibiotics may kill only 10-20 different types of bacteria.
Most antibiotics that kill bacteria will not kill fungus, yeasts, protozoal parasites or viruses; antifungal antibiotics will not kill bacteria, viruses, parasites, etc.
Virtually all known viruses are immune to virtually all known antibiotics.
We have come full circle from pre 1938 to 2001 with respect to health and medicine regarding infectious organisms, with full knowledge of how they can disrupt our way of life. And yet, there is always a silver lining in every cloud. For thousands of years, silver was the hidden ingredient utilized by knowledgeable healers such as Pliny the Elder and Paraselsus to fight infection.
BIO-PROTECT TIP: Hundreds of documented laboratory studies have confirmed that colloidal silver can resolve or mitigate more than 650
types of infections, often with greater effectiveness than drugs, and without the side effects or the exorbitant cost of drugs.
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Don’t confuse the use of a prescription drug, a protein compound that contained silver and colloidal silver itself. They are two entirely different things.
Hydrochloric acid, for example, is something entirely different than water and table salt, yet hydrochloric acid is composed of the elements found in water and
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table salt. Pure colloidal silver is simply a superfine suspension of submicroscopic silver particles in water.
Considering the origins of Western medicine it is easy to see how confusion and panic abound as we face the threat of bio-terrorism, cancer, mysterious energy disturbance illnesses, growing numbers of chronic degenerative diseases and increasing childhood mortality. As a nation we are illness and symptom oriented, not prevention oriented.
It is prevention that makes it possible for you to fight something you
cannot see before you even know it’s there.
Once you regain nuggets of wisdom that were lost, everything makes sense and it all falls into place. We see that centuries of hidden jewels of wisdom that had gone by the wayside are now coming back to us full circle in a very timely fashion.
CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS
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Silver is the guardian angel of all heavy metals and its use dates back 6,000 years.
• The FDA states that colloidal silver, a pre-1938 drug, may continue to be marketed and has no jurisdiction regarding a pure mineral element.
• Anthrax bacilli is first in the list of 650 organisms consisting of bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, etc. that were documented as being treatable with silver.
• Colloidal silver has many applications; oral, topical, injection, nasal, ear and eye drops. It is the equal opportunity destroyer, with many
similarities to Vitamin C. You cannot overdose.
• Silver was replaced by sulfa drugs, then penicillin.
• The 1990’s became the era of "super germs" due to an antibiotic evolution of microbes.
• In 1992 13,300 hospital patients died of bacterial infections that resisted antibiotics. Most antibiotics are effective against only 10-20 different types of bacteria and they do not kill fungus, yeast, protozoal parasites or viruses. Antifungal antibiotics will not kill bacteria, viruses, parasites and so forth.
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• Medical literature reports that silver routinely kills germs that are known to be antibiotic resistant.
• From pre-1938 to 2001 we have come full circle with health and medicine.
There is a silver lining regarding infectious organisms and how they can disrupt our lives. Silver provides us with a powerful, broad-spectrum antimicrobial solution whose resurgence is timely, considering the bio-terrorism threats we now face.
Prevention is how you can fight something you cannot see before you know it’s there.
End Note: Colloidal Silver and Argyria
Additional Information In reference to a Journal of the American Medical Association article, October 18 1995, volume 274 # 15, where cases of Argyria were cited to have been caused by silver compounds (not colloidal silver) we are including below some excerpts from the book The Micro Silver bullet? by Dr. M.
Paul Farber 1996 page XII (ISBN 1-887742-00-X) as well as links for additional reading on Argyria.
"These case history presentations represent biased and unprofessional writing.
The author's apparent inability to understand the difference between a silver nitrate, sulfide, or other silver compound demonstrates their lack of understanding basic chemical properties. The matrix, substrate, and particle size are all critical to the varied functions and reactions with use of these products."
"That is why there has not been a single case of Argyria from a properly manufactured modern day colloidal sliver product. The cases of Argyria reported in the 1920's and 1930's resulted because the technology of the day was unable to produce a colloidal silver product with a small enough particle size."
"The diameter of the capillary lumen is 4-9 microns. Therefore the body has no problem in excreting the silver particles."
For further reading on the subject of Argyria:
The Natural Connection, Pauline Bellecci, MD
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W. Hill & D. Pillsbury, Argyria - The Pharmacology of Silver, Baltimore: Williams
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N. Grier (1983) "Silver and Its Compounds" in Disinfection, Sterilization and Preservation, S. Block, ed., Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 380-428.
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