Hippocrates, the “father of medicine”,[1] wrote that silver had beneficial healing and anti-disease properties.[2] In the early 1900s, silver gained regulatory approval as an antimicrobial agent. Prior to the introduction of antibiotics, colloidal silver was used as a germicide and disinfectant.[3] With the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s the use of silver as an antimicrobial agent diminished.[4] Subsequently, colloidal silver was replaced by other, more effective silver compounds.
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