Precious Metals as Money and Medicine
<< At one time, gold and silver had roles to play as medicine, as well as money. As they were replaced as the universal bartering agents, so have they also been replaced in the pharmacopoeia.
If you were to look in the PDR (Physicians Desk Reference) today, you would find, under silver, only a single drug listed: a mixture of sulfa drug and silver used topically as an antiseptic. Under gold, you would find a gold compound used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. >>
gold-eagle.com
The use of gold and silver in medicine.
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Powerless - What happens at 00:00:01 on January 1? Try deadly, black, and very, very cold.
<< A heavy ice storm is the most double-edged of natural phenomena, embodying beauty and menace in equally astonishing proportions. The first response is usually awe: People find their muted winter world abruptly swollen, slippery, and silver-white, as if everything has been recast as a George Segal sculpture. Only gradually do they comprehend that their elegant surroundings are also treacherous. >>
wired.com
A look back to the great ice-storm as an example of 'life after Y2K without power'.
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