Argyria was such
>a common occurrence among the royalty that it earned
>them the name "blue-blood".
## I would really like to see this myth either proven or put to rest.
There are many much better reasons that royalty would be called blue
bloods and incidence of argyria in silver mine/foundry etc workers where
they injest dust all day long is about one in 2 thousand according to one
of the researchers in the "Colloidal Silver" collection of Gov't documents
[none of which studied "CS" in any form] who had great difficulty in
creating or finding subjects to study...and that, back in pre OSHA days.
"Blue Blood"
1834, translating Sp. sangre azul, claimed by certain families of
Castile as uncontaminated by Moorish or Jewish admixture, from the notion
of the visible veins of people of fair complexion.
Unlike so many other expressions, this one is well documented. ItÂ’s a
direct translation of the Spanish sangre azul. Many of the oldest and
proudest families of Castile used to boast that they were pure bred, having
no link with the Moors who had for so long controlled the country , or
indeed any other group. As a mark of this, they pointed to their veins,
which seemed bluer in colour than those of such foreigners. This was simply
because the blue-tinted venous blood showed up more prominently in their
lighter skin, but they took it to be a mark of their pure breeding. So the
phrase blue blood came to refer to the blood which flowed in the veins of
the oldest and most aristocratic families. The phrase was taken over into
English in the 1830s.
"Royal Blue" from the rarity of Indigo dyes, thus too expensive for the
commoner to wear.
Popularity and economic value of the plant reached a peak during the Middle
Ages, when indigo was the most important dye plant for blue color in the
western portion of the world.
It's highly unlikely that silver particles becoming lodged in capillaries
causes argryia.
Silver metal is resistant to most acids and it's unlikely that 'Blue
Bloods' commonly had the technology to make silver ions.
Nitric acid did exist by 800 AD, but just how common was it?
Think about it:
Your blood doesn't leak out of your lungs or stomach, therefore, any
particle has to be smaller than a blood cell to 'get in'.
If it can't get in, it can't become 'lodged' in a capillary, won't if it's
smaller than a blood cell and did get in ...and... can't get out if it
didn't get in.
Ode
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