Silver pills

Shimamoto Y, Shimamoto H. 1987. Systemic argyria secondary to breath freshener "Jintan Silver Pills". Hiroshima J Med Sci 36 245-247. 

The main incoming mate coniacts are generally made ot copper or brass and are cither hotted or damped on die vertical bus. Since tlic bus is generally of aluminium. Ihe coniacts may form a bimelaltic join wilh Ihe busbars and cause corrosion and pilling of ibe melal. This may result in a failure of the joinl in due course. To mininii/e rnelal oxidation and bimetallic corrosion, the conlacls must be silver plated. 

When a catalytic reaction takes place on a nonporous metal surface the coupling between the exothermic chemical reaction and the transport effects may also give rise to multiple steady states. Apparently, in the realm of chemical reaction engineering the first experimental observation of multiple steady states was done just for the catalytic wire problem [see Tamman (29), Davies (30), and Buben (5/)]. Catalytic gauzes consisting of wire screens or layers of metal pills (e.g., the silver crystals) are used for a number of industrially important catalytic reactions as, e.g., synthesis of... 

Silver EA, Silver AH, Silver DS, McCalmont TH. Pseudoporphyria induced by oral contraceptive pills. Arch Dermatol 2003 139 227-8. 

Let us say that we have the Red Stone multiplied to a strength of one part to one hundred parts metal. Take one hundred parts of pure silver metal and melt it in a crucible. When it is completely molten, take one part of the Incerated Red Stone and form it into several small balls or pills. Slowly add one pill at a time to the crucible and allow it to fuse with the silver. Continue adding the small pills until you have added the full one part. 

A patient with schizophrenia developed systemic argjria from chronic and excessive ingestion of an anti-smoking formulation that contained silver (20). Seizures developed after he had taken the pills for 40 years. There was an extremely high concentration of silver in the serum. 

Avicenna (Persia) Silver- and gold-coated pills... 

Silver is used in the quartation of gold. Pharmacists coat pills with silver not merely to enhance their appearance but also to act as preservative, largely against moisture. 

According to the method for making Amber Pills from the Golden Liquor, boil the Golden Liquor with quicksilver for thirty days. Fill an earthenware bowl [with the quicksilver] and lute it with the Mud of the Six-and-One. Place it over a raging fire and heat it. In sixty double hours its whole content will transmute itself into an elixir. Ingest this elixir in pills the size of small beans, and you will become an immortal. Take a speck of it with a spatula, add one pound of quicksilver, and it will form silver. Baopu zi, 4-83)... 

If you add yellow clay to the Golden Liquor, place them in a bowl luted with the Mud of the Six-and-One, and heat the bowl over an intense fire, its whole contents will form gold. This is the first half of the procedure. If you heat this gold longer, it will transmute itself into an elixir. By ingesting this elixir in pills of the size of small beans, you will be able to enter a famous mountain or a great river and become an Immortal of Earth (dixian). If you powder a speck of this elixir into quicksilver, it will immediately become silver if you add one ounce of this silver to one pound of lead, it will all become silver. (Baopu zi, 4.83)... 

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