Weird. I worked with a guy once whose parents believed colloidal silver would cure him of his ADD. Instead he turned blue.
I don't believe you
The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
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#73Ashamed of it and ridiculed?
I would have tought of it a fascinating and fashionable! Especially with white hair. Man, I want that when I am old!
And yeah, their ancestors might have been incestous. But that isn’t the childrens’ fault, now is it.
Man, … people somtimes.
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#74> The Fugates he treated ingested this dye and within a few minutes, the blue coloration of their skin disappeared, and their skin turned pink. Really? Within a few minutes?? Nitpick aside, such an interesting article! The world is such a big and interesting place!
Blood circulates much faster than may be obvious. It’s entirely possible that’s all it would take.
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#75It's possible I saw a member of the Fugate family back in the '80s. I grew up in West Virginia, not terribly far from the Kentucky state line. An older woman, perhaps in her seventies, was shopping in a local grocery store. I was old enough to know not to stare, but I wanted to, and couldn't help but do a sly double-take. She was bluish. No other way to describe it. No one there to witness it ever seemed to believe me (not that I can blame them), but it was a few years later that I learned the name of the family and did some research. Photos of people who are doped with enough colloidal silver to cause argyria (I think that's right) always make me think of her, and I often wonder if that was really what I saw at the time.
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#76> the tint still comes out in their skin when they are cold or flush with anger.
It's a bit hard to admit, but I'm really disappointed there isn't a picture of this.
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#77If you want to see photos of that condition, search Google images for "methemoglobinemia": https://tinyurl.com/y6ct4ye3
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#78If you want to see photos of that condition, search Google images for "methemoglobinemia": https://tinyurl.com/y6ct4ye3
Or search for smurfs.
It was my search for smurfs that bought me this HN thread.
Strange how a search for smurfs, can help you to discover a new forum full of intellectual rocket scientists.
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#79That image from wikicommons showing how recessive genes are inherited but the affected person is red and the unaffected is blue.
I know the blue person in the image is not related to the article but it's interesting how the article is about blue people yet the "affected" result is shown as red.
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#80Some real gems in this article- “I’m kin to myself” and “she was as blue a woman as I ever saw” (how many blue people have you seen?)
I think that is meant in humour
Yeah, she's saying that they're the bluest person they've ever seen because they haven't seen any other blue people.
Source: My family comes from Harlan, KY and I have Fugate relatives.