Hereditary methemoglobinemia is most commonly referred to as "the blue people disease" or "met-h". It is believed that this disease started in Kentucky with the blue Fugates of troublesome creek. It was started about six generations ago with a man named Martin Fugate. He was a French orphan. Martin came here with his red-headed American bride (Elizabeth Smith). Her skin was as pale as pale could get. They had seven children, four of them are believed to have blue colored skin. The clan of them kept multiplying. Fugates married Fugates and sometimes they even married first cousins. The Fugates lived in isolation with the Combses, Smiths, Ritchies, and Stacys; so it was natural when the boy married the girl next door (even if she had the same last name).

Eventually a boy named Benjy Stacy was born. The doctors were perplexed by the color of his skin and took many tests, but they couldn't come up with an answer to why his skin was discolored. Then his relatives told the doctor......

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