From then on, he was convinced of the drink's benefits, and sent cases of the deadly juice to business colleagues, girlfriends and even fed it to his racehorses. Byers' pain cleared up (by coincidence or placebo) and he attributed it to Radithor, which was essentially radium diluted in water like cancer flavored Kool-Aid. Bailey, offered doctors money for every drink they prescribed. The photo shown is the wrong version of the ride. Horrific History Of A Man Whose Jaw Fell Off Eben Byers. Radithor, as its name implies, was radioactive water containing Radium and Mesothorium. Covering Eben’s case, an article in the Wall Street Journal ran the headline: The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off. After a latent phase, victims experience hair loss and bone marrow failure and, if. Shortly thereafter, his teeth fell out, holes formed in his skull, and his mouth literally collapsed. His doctor prescribed him a drink called Radithor for his pain – likely because the inventor of the drink, William J.A. He earned notoriety in the early 1930s when he died from multiple radiation-induce. Poloniums effect, known as 'acute radiation syndrome,' first causes nausea, vomiting, anorexia and diarrhea. Image credit: Sam LaRussa/Wikimedia Commons ( CC BY-SA 2.0) In 1927, he fell off a bed on a train and injured his arm, which reportedly hampered him in both the athletic and sexual department. Byers was a steel mogul and athlete that had himself a reputation of being a bit of a ladies' man, after winning the US amateur golf championship of 1906. All the remaining bone tissue of his body was slowly disintegrating, and holes were actually forming in his skull. Way back before the USRC had started operations, the firm’s president had commissioned. Eben Byers lost his entire jaw (Cult of Weird / CC BY-SA 4.0) One investigator reported, His whole upper jaw, excepting two front teeth, and most of his lower jaw had been removed. 1990) describing the Byers incident was titled 'The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off'. 'This extremely painful and disfiguring condition was the most common of the diseases suffered by the radium girls,' Stemm says.
One such product became a favorite of American sportsman and socialite Eben Byers. YouTube Nine of the 14 plaintiffs seeking compensation from Radium Dial Company for asserted permanent injury suffered as a result of poisoning contracted through work painting radium on watches dials. The womens employers at Radium Corporation assured them the paint was harmless, but many of the women soon fell ill, some severely with necrosis of the jaw.
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