Eben Byers
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Ebenezer McBurney Byers was an American socialite, sportsman, and industrialist. He won the 1906 U.S. Amateur in golf. He died from jawbone cancer after consuming 1,400 bottles of Radithor, a patent m
Byers in 1906
Eben Byers in the 1920s
Radioactive quackery
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Radioactive quackery is quackery that improperly promotes radioactivity as a therapy for illnesses. Unlike radiotherapy, which is the scientifically sound use of radiation for the destruction of cells
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…Albert Stevens Radioactive quackery Macklis, Roger M. (August 1993). "The Great Radium Scandal". Scientific American. 269 (2): 94–99. Bibcode:1993SciAm.269b..94M. doi:10.1038/scientific…
"Tho-radia" powder, based on radium and thorium, according to the formula of Dr. Alfred Curie (not related to Pierre and Marie Curie)
A Borjomi mineral water ad from 1929, advertising the water as "radioactive". The water is still popular today, but said property is no longer emphasized.