Greetings Lister's.
The history of the building of the Burma road in ww II involves the use of
silver ions to eliminate diarrhea and dysentery.
A British doctor had made silver wires one meter long and soldered them on
the ends of "D" batteries. the silver wires were placed in the Lister bags ( a
WW II 50 gallon rubberized canvas water holder) and in several days the problem
disappeared.
I read this in a 1952 to 1954 Reader's Digest. At the time I was working in
La Ceiba Honduras where our water supply was direct run-off from the mountains,
no filter nothing. It was loaded with animal E-coli but no human E-coli.
Our research lab made up 12 petri dishes to run a 1/10/100/1000 dilution
study for me to do water test trying to duplicate the article and this is what
I found.
The plain water tested heavily with bacteria colonies. The 1000 to 1 dilution
still had five colonies.
Test #2; I stirred sample #2 with a silver wire for one minute. The 1000to 1
plate had no colonies.
Test #3; I attached silver wires to the end of a "D" cell and stirred the
water with the silver wires for one minute. None of the four plates had any
colonies !!!
Now today I took a 13 ounce glass of Kansas City water, inserted two #12
silver wires into the water so that they had 4" of wet length. I applied 27
volts and measured the current vs time.
Time Current
0 54 ma
2 55 ma
3 55.4 ma
The Ag+ measured at .66 PPM which is more than adequate for most health
problems.
It had a disagreeable taste and a lot of silver chloride in it but usable.
"Ole Bob"
PS The Reader's digest company index only goes back to 1960. So if you want
to go to a good library you may find the article.
Bob
