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.
History has often cited that the aristocracy lived in larger numbers due to better nutrition and cleanliness. The fact of the matter is that even the very wealthiest in society had to be wary of accusations of witchcraft. Housecats who would have killed the flea-ridden mice who spread this disease were killed on-sight, and bathing was regarded as sinful vanity and viewed with suspicion.
Their clothing was often much cleaner than their bodies. People at this time had gotten the notion that lice were good luck, and fleas in the bed kept one from having impure thoughts. Leave it to fundamentalist Christianity to bring about a dark age of ignorance, paranoia, and overall backwards thinking.
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.
History has often cited that the aristocracy lived in larger numbers due to better nutrition and cleanliness. The fact of the matter is that even the very wealthiest in society had to be wary of accusations of witchcraft. Housecats who would have killed the flea-ridden mice who spread this disease were killed on-sight, and bathing was regarded as sinful vanity and viewed with suspicion.
Their clothing was often much cleaner than their bodies. People at this time had gotten the notion that lice were good luck, and fleas in the bed kept one from having impure thoughts. Leave it to fundamentalist Christianity to bring about a dark age of ignorance, paranoia, and overall backwards thinking.
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.