It has been claimed that the aristocracy vastly outlived the peasantry during the Plague because they ate and drank from sterling cups and bowls. There may be some truth to this claim, although modern doctors are basically paid to deny that diseases can be treated by anything other than a battery of prescriptions. When one looks at the circumstances surrounding The Plague, it is clear that there may be some health benefits to ingesting colloidal silver.
Better nutrition and being clean is often cited as the reason wealthy outlived poor during this time. While there may be some truth to the benefit of better nutrition, wealthy aristocrats were not all that much cleaner than their peasant counterparts. Due to fears of being accused of witchcraft, all cats were killed in the wealthy houses as well as the poor, and bathing was not regarded as a necessity for anyone.
So while their clothing may have been more fine, the bodies of the upper class were just as ridden with lice, and the beds were just as full of fleas as any peasant. In fact, these parasitic insects were somehow regarded as good luck by most people. Let us not forget that these were the Dark Ages, so called because fundamentalist Christianity had led mankind into an age of ignorance and paranoia.
It was tradition and a sort of vanity of lifestyle which allowed the aristocracy to continue eating and drinking from sterling. People from the Renaissance may have had some knowledge, now lost, telling them that this material promoted good health. However, the unwashed masses of Dark-Age Europe did not knowingly seek to protect their health in this way.
Wealthy people did die of the Plague in large numbers, but the percentage of wealthy to poor who survived was large. Not only was it the one-percenters of their time, but Nuns and monks also had the benefit of eating and drinking from silver, and they survived in larger percentages as well even though they were the ones who tended to the sick. With that much exposure, one must research what it was that they were doing different.
In recent years more attention has been paid to the science behind the survivability, and there is no doubt that it points to the use of sterling as an eating and drinking receptacle. Turns out, sterling in microscopic doses has antibacterial as well as antiviral and antifungal properties. This makes it possibly the most effective preventative medicine ever used.
Limited research has been performed, and seems to back up this widely held theory. However, there are no universities willing to provide funding for this research, as it acts in opposition to the wishes of pharmaceutical companies who provide much of their funding. If the pharmaceutical giants are doing active research on this, it is being kept quiet.
The fact is, these attributes are well-established even if they are not accepted openly by any official source. There is little doubt that the pharmaceutical companies themselves probably have something in store as far as research is concerned, for they must be able to synthesize sterling as well as create a monitoring of the dose to make sure the public does not get too healthy. If they do, in fact, find a way to synthesize sterling, they will have either shut Pandora back in a box, or opened several cans of worms.
Better nutrition and being clean is often cited as the reason wealthy outlived poor during this time. While there may be some truth to the benefit of better nutrition, wealthy aristocrats were not all that much cleaner than their peasant counterparts. Due to fears of being accused of witchcraft, all cats were killed in the wealthy houses as well as the poor, and bathing was not regarded as a necessity for anyone.
So while their clothing may have been more fine, the bodies of the upper class were just as ridden with lice, and the beds were just as full of fleas as any peasant. In fact, these parasitic insects were somehow regarded as good luck by most people. Let us not forget that these were the Dark Ages, so called because fundamentalist Christianity had led mankind into an age of ignorance and paranoia.
It was tradition and a sort of vanity of lifestyle which allowed the aristocracy to continue eating and drinking from sterling. People from the Renaissance may have had some knowledge, now lost, telling them that this material promoted good health. However, the unwashed masses of Dark-Age Europe did not knowingly seek to protect their health in this way.
Wealthy people did die of the Plague in large numbers, but the percentage of wealthy to poor who survived was large. Not only was it the one-percenters of their time, but Nuns and monks also had the benefit of eating and drinking from silver, and they survived in larger percentages as well even though they were the ones who tended to the sick. With that much exposure, one must research what it was that they were doing different.
In recent years more attention has been paid to the science behind the survivability, and there is no doubt that it points to the use of sterling as an eating and drinking receptacle. Turns out, sterling in microscopic doses has antibacterial as well as antiviral and antifungal properties. This makes it possibly the most effective preventative medicine ever used.
Limited research has been performed, and seems to back up this widely held theory. However, there are no universities willing to provide funding for this research, as it acts in opposition to the wishes of pharmaceutical companies who provide much of their funding. If the pharmaceutical giants are doing active research on this, it is being kept quiet.
The fact is, these attributes are well-established even if they are not accepted openly by any official source. There is little doubt that the pharmaceutical companies themselves probably have something in store as far as research is concerned, for they must be able to synthesize sterling as well as create a monitoring of the dose to make sure the public does not get too healthy. If they do, in fact, find a way to synthesize sterling, they will have either shut Pandora back in a box, or opened several cans of worms.
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