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Article: New silver dressings may serve critical role in your wound kit.
- Article from:
- Wound Care
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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New silver dressings may serve critical role in your wound kit
Products provide more reliable methods of silver delivery to injured tissue
Silver has long been associated with the forces of good. Silver weapons were once believed to kill evil creatures. The Lone Ranger rode a horse named Silver and shot silver bullets at outlaws. And if a dark cloud holds hidden blessings, it is said to have a silver lining.
Many cultures around the world recognized the healing properties of silver centuries before the postulation of the germ theory and the identification of bacteria as a cause of infection. Todays intractable infections have caused health care ...