Silver in Medicine – Past, Present and Future
This is a brief but interesting backgrounder, or white paper overview, from the respected Silver Institute. It details the use of silver in medicine from the time of Hippocrates to the present day, and into the future. Covers everything from the use of silver sulfadiazine cream in burn and wound treatment, to silver dressings, to new developments in silver-coated surgical implants, to the use of silver in combination with traditional antibiotic drugs as a means of controlling antimicrobial resistance.