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“The Blue People of Troublesome Creek,” was spread and caused by many different factors. It was a blood defect that was passed down throughout generations of inbreeding and close relations of several families. The remoteness of the “colony” of blue people had an effect on why this spread to so many people, and not just a few. The actually deficiency itself was called methemoglobinemia, and was an enzyme defect. Doctor Cawein was the one to actually discover and treat the defect, and make the people of troublesome creek no longer blue but pink. Martin Fugate was a man of blue color, he moved to America and claimed some land; the land however that he claimed was very secluded, it was set way out in the middle of eastern Kentucky all by itself. This blue man and his extremely white red headed wife, who happened ot have the same gene that he carried had seven children, four of which happened to be blue as well. Because this was back before railways or roads it was hard for the children to move other …show more content…

Dr. Cawein had read an article from a doctor in Alaska that had some of the same things occur to Eskimos. So he drew lots of blood and was able to know for sure that they had the enzyme defect. He begin to ponder what would be a good way to get rid of the problem. The first thing that came to mind was methylene blue. He knew that if the body was filled with enough of the blue dye that the body would begin to convert the defect back to normal hemoglobin. With this discovery he had to test it out. It gave each blue person a shot of methylene blue and then prescribed them with methylene blue tablets that they had to take daily. Even after the shot they could already tell a change of skin color. So after a buildup of the tablets they would look like normal people for the first times in their

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