Barb, will you please tell 'em I was KIDDING?!?!?  We've just suvived a
verbal duel with Rosemary of Sunnybrook Farm...  
http://homepages.together.net/~rjstan/rose10.html.

--Russ

> > BUT DON'T FORGET THE EVILS OF AGYRIA!!!!!!!!  
> > [waving arms & panting!]  --Russ
> 
> Even drinking the largest-particle electro-colloidal
> silver I could make (dark purple or brown), I would
> still need to drink more each day than I am able to
> drink, over an very extended period of time, before
> argyria would reach the level of faint possibility.
> 
> The discussions of argyria that have occured on this
> list and elsewhere have demonstrated to me that nobody
> even knows what causes argyria.
> 
> The two schools of thought seem to be that, 
> 
> 1. Argyria is caused by ingesting large amounts of a
> silver salt (over an extended period of time), which
> somehow photosynthesizes into silver metal (catalyzed
> by light) which is trapped in the skin pigment.
> 
> 2. Consuming large amounts of silver or silver salts
> in particularly large particle size (such as
> mechanically ground up silver) for an extended time.
> 
> Neither of these eventualities are related to the
> consumption of electro-colloidal silver. Neither the
> amount of silver nor the largest possible particle
> size of electro-colloidal silver is remotely close to
> any known intelligent theory of the cause of argyria
> (excepting inane claims made by the FDA).
> 
> The fact remains that, "We could not locate a single
> case of orally consumed colloidal silver manufactured
> in the last 25 years causing Argyria in our review of
> the literature.” Alexander G. Schauss, Ph.D. Director,
> Life Sciences Division John Hopkins University.
> 
> Terry Wayne
> 
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