The Blue People

Title: The Blue People
Category: Science & Technology
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The Blue People

The Blue People of Troublesome Creek Trost, Cathy. The Blue People of troublesome Creek. Science, November 1982. Pp. 35-39. Martin Fugate was a French orphan who settled on the banks of eastern Kentucky’s Troublesome Creek. His great-great-great-great grandson was born not far from Troublesome Creek. He was born with dark blue skin that appeared to be the color of a bruised plum. This color was due to blood inherited from past generations. His great-great-great-great grandson Benjy …showed first 75 words of 429 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 429 total…accumulated so much of the blue molecule that it overwhelmed the red of normal hemoglobin that shows through as pink in the skin of most Caucasians. Cawein decided methylene blue was the “perfectly obvious” antidote. Cawein chose methylene blue because it had been used successfully and safely in other cases and because it acts so quickly. Once he injected each patient with the 100 milligrams of the antidote the blue color was gone from their skin.

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