Ep. 18 | Man With the Blue Skin
MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Wondery | Ballen Studios
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In 1944, nearly a dozen men show up at a hospital in New York. All are violently ill and passing out – and they all have bright blue skin. A medical investigator rushes to figure out what is making them sick… and what is causing their bizarre appearance.
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| 0:17.0 | The emergency room physician raced to his patient's bedside and jammed a long hollow tube down the unconscious man's throat. |
| 0:26.0 | He fed the tube down the man's esophagus, down into his stomach. |
| 0:30.0 | Once it was in place, he attached a large syringe full of water to the tube. |
| 0:34.6 | He depressed the plunger on the syringe, forcing the water down the tube and into the man's |
| 0:38.8 | stomach. |
| 0:39.8 | Then the doctor slowly retracted the plunger on the syringe creating suction. |
| 0:44.8 | Fluid immediately emptied out of the man's stomach and back into the syringe. |
| 0:48.8 | The doctor dumped that fluid into a bucket beside the bed and then repeated that process over and over again |
| 0:54.1 | until he was certain that every ounce of food had been emptied from the man's |
| 0:58.0 | stomach. The doctor hoped that along with the liquid and bile came whatever poison had made this old man sick in the first place. |
| 1:06.0 | The poison that caused this man to collapse on the sidewalk, gasping for air as his skin turned a bright sky blue. |
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