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milk to prevent spoiling. Until very recent times, doctors used the bacteria", and that is what antibiotics tend to do. The use of silver when necessary to hold bones together and to cover holes in antibiotics often results in the killing of essential bacteria in the the skull. digestive system and probably other parts of the body. For its Almost 200 years ago, doctors learned that they could grind chemical production, the liver often uses certain bacteria, just as silver into a fine powder, much like flour, and use it to treat the pharmaceutical companies do. Antibiotics kill otherwise incurable diseases such as syphilis. Doctors usually indiscriminately. avoided using it, however, because it commonly produced argyrea, While the medical doctors treated fungi and viruses effectively a permanent bluing of the skin. Silver nitrate was also commonly with silver before the days of antibiotics, once antibiotics entered used as a disinfectant. The negative nitrate ion is poisonous. the picture the medical field then took the position that viruses Around 1880, scientist Georg Bredig developed a process for and fungi are untreatable. They gave their antibiotics to patients producing a much superior product by placing two silver for viruses, although all official positions were that antibiotics electrodes underwater, causing an electrical arc between the would not treat viruses. In more recent times, the drug companies electrodes. He used a very high voltage (thousands of volts) to have developed antifungal products, but these are well known to produce this arc, which ate away the silver to form a silver colloid be very hard on the liver and of minor effect. Even such of very small particle size in a positive ionic form (an ion is an substances as iodine and mercurochrome kill indiscriminately and electrically charged atom). This product did not cause argyria and usually attack the flesh to some degree. The right silver product, was much more effective than the powdered instead, is very healing. silver or silver nitrate. Bredig's silver did have two disadvantages, however. First, the Developments in Production extremely high voltage could be quite In more recent times, a process of dangerous, especially around water. Second, producing “ionic silver" by a very-low- the process was extremely slow. . voltage current has been developed. I As a result, the pharmaceutical companies There Is far more have been working to improve this preferred to produce and sell more easily money in treating procedure for 14 years. | It is a very safe obtainable silver salts, preferably silver nitrate. version of Bredig's process. They went so far as to convince several the symptoms of Unfortunately, it has one problem: if governments to bring in legislation requiring it disease than in water containing any impurities is used, to be used in every newborn baby's eyes, to . the silver often combines with the prevent blindness caused by infection from the treating the cause. impurities to produce undesirable mother during birth. However, silver nitrate H products—but without the impurities, the has severe problems. It attacks the flesh and Still, the general water will not conduct the necessary attitude of doctors is to "kill the bacteria’, and that is what antibiotics tend to do. stains everything it touches black, the stain being very hard to remove. It had to be used carefully or it would attack the eyes and itself produce a permanent blindness. Some people believed it always damaged a baby's eyes to some extent, and it was often said that a baby treated with it had duller eyes than those not treated. The continued use of silver nitrate and occasionally ground silver by doctors gave Silver a bad reputation, and it was considered a treatment of more or less last resort. Then came the antibiotics in the news. He was producing his with a huge push from the drug silver in this manner and drinking it companies. While the silver could treat almost every strain of like water over a long period of time. electrical current to produce the silver in the water. As a result, many people are producing a product by this means, using common table salt as an electrolyte. This largely produces silver chloride, which is insoluble in water and therefore collects in the tissues. When used in large amounts, silver chloride will produce that discolouration of the skin known as argyria. Perhaps you have seen pictures of "the blue man" on TV or acteria, viruses and fungi effectively, the new antibiotics treated Another common form is a "silver protein", a mixture of silver only certain bacteria. An exact diagnosis was often required and gelatin or other protein. It is often used by medical researchers efore the proper antibiotic could be prescribed. because it is convenient for them, while the production of high- The silver had another very strange and desirable quality which —_ quality "ionic silver" is not. Silver proteins can be produced easily the antibiotics did not: it was very selective in the bacteria it and cheaply in high concentrations. They are often promoted as illed. It distinguished between the beneficial and the unfriendly having very high parts per million and therefore assumed to be acteria and only killed the unfriendly bacteria! Unfortunately, very effective. The high concentration is largely the protein rather the medical field took up Pasteur's finding about bacteria and their than the silver content. Therefore, the surface area covered by the relationship to disease and built their unquestioned science around silver is small, reducing the effectiveness. disease as a product of bacteria. Their general attitude was that all For 14 years, my daughter and I have been selling an automated acteria are to be avoided. "ionic silver" generator which works quite well using only distilled It is now well known that many bacteria are essential to good = water. We have sold well over 6,000 of these, and not one ealth. It is also known that very few bacteria will cause disease customer has ever complained of any discolouration of the skin. unless something in the person is badly out of balance. There is We talk on the phone with customers a large part of the time and far more money in treating the symptoms of disease than in treating the cause. Still, the general attitude of doctors is to "kill Continued on page 80 money in treating the symptoms of disease than in treating the cause. Still, the general attitude of doctors is to do. JUNE — JULY 2008 NEXUS = 37 There is far more to "kill the bacteria’, and that is what antibiotics tend Continued on page 80 www.nexusmagazine.com