I guess they were talking about systemic silver of any description, rather than GI silver. Do you recall that it is said that Roman soldiers would continuously swallow and recycle a silver coin, in order to protect themselves from disease.
It is clear that it is the quantity of silver, rather than the type administered, that causes Argyria, don't you think? > -----Original Message----- > From: Marshall Dudley [mailto:mdud...@execonn.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2002 2:42 p.m. > To: silver-list@eskimo.com > Subject: Re: CS>Caffeine > > > I am reviewing that literature now. I did find one > interesting sentence: > > Silver at 50-500 mg/kg body weight is the lethal toxic dose > in humans. > > When I was a teenager I swallowed a quarter. This was when > quarters were 90% > silver. It weighed 6.25 grams, so there was 5.625 grams of > silver there. I > weighted about 100 pounds, or about 40 KG. The lethal dose > would be 2 to 20 > grams. So I should have had a dosage that was in the > lethal range. I did not > even get sick. I cannot help but believe they are speaking > of silver salts, not > silver metal. > > Marshall > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
