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To learn more about these astonishing changes, we studied pieces of
the granulation tissue itself, taken from patients treated with the silver
nylon. We placed the samples in culture dishes and observed them as
they grew. Without the silver factor we would have expected a popula-
tion of slowly proliferating fibroblasts. However, these cells grew fast,
producing a diverse and surprising assortment of primitive forms, in-
cluding fully dedifferentiated cells, rounded fibroblasts, and amoebalike
cells. Strangest of all were giant cells that looked almost like fertilized
eggs, very active and with several nucleoli. (The nucleolus is a "little
nucleus" within the nucleus proper.) When other cells encountered the
giant cells, the smaller cells often split open and emptied their nuclei
into the giants. After two weeks these diverse cells had coalesced into an
amorphous mass of primitive cells closely resembling a blastema, and in
another week, as the silver washed out, they'd all become staid, sober
fibroblasts acting as though nothing had happened.
The major difference between the two experiments was that the sec-
ond one started with cells that had already been exposed to positive
silver ions in the human body. Their rapid growth and unspecialized forms
suggested that the fibroblasts in the first experiment had in fact been
dedifferentiated. It remains to be seen exactly what the various forms do,
but it's obvious that in the aggregate they profoundly stimulate soft-
tissue healing in a way that's unlike any known natural process. We ran
a controlled study of the healing enhancement on pigs, their skin being
physiologically closest to that of humans. Positive silver nylon acceler-
ated the healing of measured skin wounds on the animals' backs by over
50 percent as compared with identical control wounds made on the
backs of the same animals at the same time.
We saw positive silver's lifesaving potential most clearly in our expe-
rience with a patient named Tom in 1979. Tom had had massive doses
of X rays for cancer of the larynx, and his larynx later had to be re-
moved. Because of the radiation, the surrounding tissue was helpless
against infection, and the skin and muscle of his entire neck literally
dissolved into a horrid wound. The ear, nose, and throat doctor treating
him begged me to try the nylon, and I agreed after the attending physi-
cian got a release signed by the head of his department. After one month
of electrified silver treatment, the infection was gone and healing was
progressing, the wound healed completely in a total of three months,
although Tom soon died from tumors elsewhere in his body. I reported
this case at a small National Institutes of Health meeting that same
year. One physician, who said he'd never heard of any comparable heal-
ing of such a grave wound, was moved to exclaim after seeing my slides,
"I have witnessed a miracle!"