COLLOIDAL SILVER- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

"Colloidal Silver-Our Mightiest Germ Fighter"-Quote from Science Digest March 1978.

People often ask why they have never heard of Colloidal Silver!
Seventy years ago Colloidal Silver was a proven germ fighter and widely used. It was the mainstay of antibiotic treatment.

In 1914 the medical journal, "Lancet", reported phenomenal results from it's use. Dr. Henry Crooks showed Colloidal Silver to be absolutely harmless, and non-toxic to humans, and highly germicidal. Colloidal Silver has proven itself useful against all species of fungi, parasites, bacteria, protozoa, and certain viruses.
For centuries we've known the properties of silver. The ancients stored their water in silver vessels to prevent bacteria from growing.
American settlers would put a silver dollar in their milk containers to hinder it's spoilage.
Australian Colonials would suspend a silver fork or spoon in their water containers to prevent contamination.
Soldiers in the American Civil War swallowed whole silver dollars to ward off disease (thankfully there is no information on how they re-cycled them!)
Communion goblets used in church were made of silver, because it was known that one couldn't catch any disease if the cup was made of silver.
In certain European countries a silver teaspoon/fork was placed in the pot when cooking mussels.

The expression born with a silver spoon in their mouth came about during the 'Plague' when mothers would put a silver spoon in the mouths of their babies to protect them from the dreaded disease.

Blue bloods got their name from the fact that royalty ate from silver, drink from silver and stored their food in silver containers, over the years the protection they recieved from disease gave them a reputation that they were also godlike...and in additiont the silver turned their skin a slightly bluish color.

Prior to 1940 articles regarding benefits of colloidal silver were frequently seen in medical journals. During the 1930s silver was used both externally and internally for a variety of medical conditions. Because of the price of silver, (then $200 US an ounce) when Penicilin was discovered in the 1940's it was hailed as the miracle of the modern world. Doctor's even went so far as to claim that the world would now be totally disease free.

2003, December 27th, Therapeutic Goods Administration of Australia proclaimed that colloidal silver is a very powerful water bacterio-static and provided manufacturers made no therapeutic claims it could be continued to be manufactured as a water sanitiser.

Dr Fiona Woods..Australian of the Year.. Burns Unit-Royal Perth Hospital..has a geat deal of success with burns patients with her patented spray on skin..and also because she uses silver impregnated bandages..called Silverlon ..at $600 per bandage...this is a guaranteed way of preventing any disease..

Curad has just produced the first patented silver impregnated band-aid

We recently came across a doctor who documents with references all diseases SUCCESSFULLY treated by doctors over the last few decades.

And we quote him here for your interest.

Dr. Peter L. Reynolds, Ph.D., Provo UT, November 1995, p5
"Since colloidal silver has hardly been considered for the last 50 years, some of the best scientific research was conducted before 1938. A wide range of pathogens and conditions were addressed using colloidal silver. The following is a collection of pathogens and conditions I have found documented before 1938 where patients were being successfully treated using colloidal silver" :

Anthrax Bacilli 2, 3
Appendicitis 3
Axillæ and blind boils of the neck 10
B. Coli 2
B. Coli Communis 7
B. Dysenteria 2
B.Pyocaneus 2
B. Tubercolosis 7
Bacillary Dysentery 4
Bladder Irritation 12
Blepharitis (infection of the eyelids) 13
Boils 10
Bromidrosis in Axille 12
Bromidrosis in Feet 10
Burns and wounds of the cornea 13
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 3, 9
Chronic Cystitis 10
Chronic Eczema of Anterior Nares 10
Chronic Eczema of metus of ear 10
Colitis 4
Cystitis 8
Dacryocystitis 13
Dermatitis suggestive of toxæmia 4
Diarrhoea (diarrhea) 4
Diptheria 3
Dysentery 3, 6
Ear Affections 5
Enlarged Prostate 12
Epiditymitis 10
Erysipelas 3
Eustachian tubes (potency restored) 8
Follicular Tonsilitis 10
Furunculosis (Hidradenitis Suppurativa) 3
Gonococcus 7
Gonorrhoea 10
Gonorrhoeal Conjunctivitis 10
Gonorrhoeal Opthalimia 13
Gonorrhoeal Prostratic Gleet 11
Hæmorrhoids 12
Hypo-pygon Ulcer 13
Impetigo 10
Infantile Disease 16
Infected ulcers of the cornea 13
Inflammatory Rheumatism 3
Influenze 11
Interstitial Keratitis 13
Intestinal troubles 6
Lesion Healing 12
Leucorrhoea 6
Menier's Symptoms 6
Nasal Catarrh 5
Nasopharyngeal Catarrh (reduced) 8
Oedematous enlargement of turbinates without true hyperplasia 9
Offensive discharge of chronic suppuration in Otitis Media 10
Ophthalmology 12
Opthalmic practices 5
Para-Typhoid 3
Paramecium (Alternate names for Balantidium coli include Holophrya coli, Leukophrya coli, and Paramecium coli., Balantidiasis) 1
Perineal Eczema 12
Phlegmons 3
Phlyctenular Conjunctivitis 10
Pneumococci 2
Pruritis Ani 12
Puerperal Septicæmia 15
Purulent Opthalmia of infants 13
Pustular Eczema of scalp 10
Pyorrhoea Alveolaris (Riggs disease) 8
Quinsies 6
Rhinitis 9
Ringworm of the body 10
Scarlatina 3
Sepsis 16
Septic Tonsilitis 10
Septic Ulcers of the legs 10
Septicæmia 5, 8
Shingles 6
Soft Sores 10
Spring Catarrh 10
Sprue 6
Staphyloclysin (inhibits) 200
Staphylococcus Pyogenea 7
Staphylococcus Pyogens Albus 2
Staphylococcus Pyogens Aureus 2
Streptococci 7
Subdues inflammation 12
Suppurative Appendicitis (post-op) 10
Tinea Versicolor 10
Tonsilitis 6
Typhoid 3
Typhoid Bacillus 14
Ulcerative Urticaria 4
Urticaria suggestive of toxæmia 12
Valsava's inflammation 8
Vincent's Angina 10
Vorticella 1
Warts 12
Whooping Cough 8

More recent articles have described silver being used to treat the following:
Adenovirus 5, 23
Aspergillus Niger 18
Bacillius Typhosus 21
Bovine Rotavirus 23
Candida Albicans 18, 25
Candida Globata 25
Entamoeba Histolytica (cysts) 24
Escherichia Coli 17, 18, 21
Gardnerella Vaginalis 25
Legionella Pneumophila (Legionaire's Disease) 17
M. Furfur 25
Neisseria Gonorrhea 25
Poliovirus 1 (Sabin strain) 23
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa 17, 18
Salmonella 23
Salmonella Typhi 25
Spore-forming Bacteria 24
Staphylococcus Aureus 17, 25
Streptococcus Fæcalis 17
Streptococcus Pyogenes 25
Vegetative B. Cereus cells 24

The following is a documented list of silver resistant bacteria:
Citrobacter Freundii 20
Enterobacter Cloacæ 20
Enterobacteriaceæ (some strains) 19
Escherichia Coli (some strains) 19
Klebsiella Pneumnoniæ 20
P. Stutzeri (some strains) 19
Proteus Mirabilis 20
Vegetative B. Cereus Spores 24

Bibiography
1. Bechhold, H. (1919). Colloids in Biology and Medicine, translated by J. G. M. Bullow. D. Van Nostrand Company, New York, p. 367
2. Ibid., p. 368.
3. Ibid., p. 376

4. Searle, A. B. (1919). The Use of Colloids in Health0 and Disease. (Quoting from the British Medical Journal, May 12, 1917). E. P. Dutton and Company: New York, p. 82
5. Ibid., (Quoting from the British Medical Journal, Jan. 15, l(s)17), p. 83.
6. Ibid., (Quoting Sir James Cantlie in the British Medical Journal, Nov. 15, 1913), p. 83.
7. Ibid., (Quoting Henry Crookes), p. 70.
8. Ibid., (Quoting J. Mark Hovell in the British Medical Journal, Dec. 15, 1917), p. 86.
9. Ibid., (Quoting B. Seymour Jones), p. 86.
10.Ibid., (Quoting C.E. A. MacLeod in Lancet, Feb. 3, 1912), p. 83.
11. Ibid., (Quoting J. MacMunn in the British Medical Journal, 1917, I, 685), p. 86.
12. Ibid., (Quoting Sir Malcom Morris in the British Medical Journal, May, 1917), p. 85.
13. Ibid., (Quoting A. Legge Roe in the British Medical Journal, Jan. 16, 1915), p. 83.
14. Ibid., (Quoting W. J. Simpson in Lancet, Dec. 12, 1914), pp. 71-72.
15. Ibid., (Quoting T. H. Anderson Wells in Lancet, Feb. 16, 1918), p. 85.
16. (1931). Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office United States Army. United States Government Pnnting Office, Washington, v. IX, p. 628.
17. Moyasar, T. Y.; Landeen, L. K.; Messina, M. C.; Kutz, S. M.; Schulze, R.; and Gerba, C. P. (1990). Disinfection of Bacteria in Water Systems by Using Electrolytically Generated Copper, Silver and Reduced Levels of Free Chlorine. Found in Canadian Journal of Microbiology. The National Research Council of Canada: Ottawa, Ont., Canada, pp. 109-116.
18. Simonetti, N.; Simonetti, G.; Bougnol, E; and Scalzo, M. ( 1992). Electrochemical Ag+ for Preservative Use. Article found in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology, Washington, V. 58, 12, pp. 3834-3836.
19. Slawson, R. M.; Van Dyke, M. I.; Lee, H.; and Trevors, J. T. (1992). Germanium and Silver Resistance, Accumulation, and Toxicity in Microorg00anisms. Article found in Plasmid. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, v. 27, 1, pp. 73-79.
20. Thurman, R. B. and Gerba, C. P. (1989). The Molecular Mechanisms of Copper and Silver Ion Disinfection of Bacteria and Viruses. A paper presented in the First International Conference on Gold and Silver in Medicine. The Silver Institute, Washington, v. 18, 4, p. 295. 21. Ibid., p. 299.
21. Ibid., p. 299.
22. Ibid., p. 300.
23. Ibid., p. 301.
24. Ibid., p. 302.
25. Larry C. Ford, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLA School of Medicine, Center for the Health Sciences, November 1,1988.
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Dr. Peter L. Reynolds, Ph.D., Provo UT, November 1995 goes on to say in the Provo Newspaper "This list, along with the references, should at least help our doctor friends realize that a lot of research has already been done on colloidal silver. At one time it was quite commonly used."