To this day,silver continues to play a role in medicine. Silver-coated bandages kill germs that might infect burns and other wounds.Breathing tubes are sometimes coated with silver to reduce the risk of patients on ventilators developing pneumonia from exposure to germs. Around 2005,companies started adding a new form of silver fashioned into minute particles, to everyday items like socks, toothbrushes, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and so on, as a "defense against bacteria that might make people sick" or cause stinky feet or bad breath. This form of silver came to be known as NANOSILVER.

Historians suspect that argyria could have been the origin of the term “blue blood” is used to describe people of noble birth. In earlier times, it was common for European nobillity to have skin that appeared to have a blue or greenish cast especially made obviou...