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.
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.
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.
While many of the wealthy households did perish from Plague, statistically speaking they had a much greater survival rate than those who lived in the parish villages. This is made even more pointedly when one realizes that the monks themselves often survived both victims of Plague as well as Leprosy. Monks and Nuns were most often exposed to victims of these two afflictions, as they provided the health as well as spiritual care to these poor souls.
In these modern times people want to understand the science behind this survival, and it repeatedly points to the presence of sterling in the diet of Dark Age people. If the findings are all true, it is most certainly the wonder-drug that has not yet been turned into a drug. It is possibly an antiviral, antibiotic, and antifungal all in one.
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.
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.
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.
While many of the wealthy households did perish from Plague, statistically speaking they had a much greater survival rate than those who lived in the parish villages. This is made even more pointedly when one realizes that the monks themselves often survived both victims of Plague as well as Leprosy. Monks and Nuns were most often exposed to victims of these two afflictions, as they provided the health as well as spiritual care to these poor souls.
In these modern times people want to understand the science behind this survival, and it repeatedly points to the presence of sterling in the diet of Dark Age people. If the findings are all true, it is most certainly the wonder-drug that has not yet been turned into a drug. It is possibly an antiviral, antibiotic, and antifungal all in one.
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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