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.
Common knowledge wants to point to better nutrition and personal hygiene as the reason for their survivability. However, the facts of history do not support that theory, especially when it came to bathing. Their nutrition was sometimes worse than the poor as they insisted on eating white bread rather than wheat or rye, and society at large frowned upon regular bathing during that era.
Their clothes were generally clean, but to bathe away the lice or eradicate fleas from their beds would have been looked upon with suspicion by the church. Having parasites constantly drawing your attention was believed to help prevent impure thoughts from entering the mind. Between the tolerance of fleas but intolerance of housecats, the superstitions of Christianity were directly responsible for the Plague.
People did not eat from sterling with any intent on maintaining health, as such wisdom had been largely eradicated from society by that time. It was more a force of tradition which allowed that speck of social vanity. There may have been a time prior to the Dark Ages where people had connected the use of sterling dinnerware with good health, but by this time such objective analysis was not common.
One cannot say that none of the wealthy families within that society fell victim to plague. However, when compared to the peasantry, a greater percentage of the gentry survived the Plague despite having similar habits. Even more telling is the fact that members of the Christian Priesthood who also had the luxury of eating and drinking from sterling, the monks and nuns who tended to victims of both leprosy and plague, survived in a vast larger percentage than the peasants.
As many people lean towards more homeopathic solutions to their health problems, an interest has grown around the methods that people used in the past to maintain health. This has brought many to analyze the habits of people during the Plague, and question why some survived while others did not. Many homeopathic practitioners cite that this metal acts as an agent which aids the blood in fighting bacteria, viruses, and even fungus.
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.
Common knowledge wants to point to better nutrition and personal hygiene as the reason for their survivability. However, the facts of history do not support that theory, especially when it came to bathing. Their nutrition was sometimes worse than the poor as they insisted on eating white bread rather than wheat or rye, and society at large frowned upon regular bathing during that era.
Their clothes were generally clean, but to bathe away the lice or eradicate fleas from their beds would have been looked upon with suspicion by the church. Having parasites constantly drawing your attention was believed to help prevent impure thoughts from entering the mind. Between the tolerance of fleas but intolerance of housecats, the superstitions of Christianity were directly responsible for the Plague.
People did not eat from sterling with any intent on maintaining health, as such wisdom had been largely eradicated from society by that time. It was more a force of tradition which allowed that speck of social vanity. There may have been a time prior to the Dark Ages where people had connected the use of sterling dinnerware with good health, but by this time such objective analysis was not common.
One cannot say that none of the wealthy families within that society fell victim to plague. However, when compared to the peasantry, a greater percentage of the gentry survived the Plague despite having similar habits. Even more telling is the fact that members of the Christian Priesthood who also had the luxury of eating and drinking from sterling, the monks and nuns who tended to victims of both leprosy and plague, survived in a vast larger percentage than the peasants.
As many people lean towards more homeopathic solutions to their health problems, an interest has grown around the methods that people used in the past to maintain health. This has brought many to analyze the habits of people during the Plague, and question why some survived while others did not. Many homeopathic practitioners cite that this metal acts as an agent which aids the blood in fighting bacteria, viruses, and even fungus.
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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