~Through the world of Sawbones~

We all feel blue once in a while, but some people actually are blue. This rare condition is caused by chronic ingestion or inhaling of silver. As a consequence, silver particles accumulate in the skin over time and darken with exposure to sunlight, resulting in an irreversible blue or gray skin tone. Argyria  or  argyrosis  is a  condition   caused by excessive exposure to chemical compounds of the element  silver , or to silver dust. The most dramatic symptom of argyria is that the  skin  turns purple or purple-grey. It may take the form of  generalized argyria  or  local argyria . Generalized argyria affects large areas over much of the visible surface of the body. Local argyria shows in limited regions of the body, such as patches of skin, parts of the  mucous membrane  or the  conjunctiva . In 2007, press reports described Paul Karason, an  American  man whose entire skin gradually turned...

A woman in central  China  has almost died after injecting the juice of more than 20 types of fruit directly into her veins.  The 51-year-old woman, surnamed Zeng, was blindly following a folk remedy to improve her health and thought she could better absorb the nutrients in the fruits this way, Chinese media reported.