Therefore his medic prescribed Radithor for faster healing besides all its other hypothetical benefits.īyers followed his medic’s prescription to only take a small spoon a day. The wound wasn’t very bad, but it provoked a lot of pain, something Byers was not used to. In 1927, during one of his matches, he tripped and injured his arm. Once his father deemed him old enough, he made him the president of Girard Iron Company. He was an athletic young man who won many gold championships in the early 1900s. His wealthy background permitted him a good education, even going as far as graduating from Yale University. The tragic death of Eben Byers Eben Byers playing Golf in 1914 (Source: Wikimedia Commons)Įben Byers was born in 12 April 1880. The benefits of Radithor were very vague as the description only mentioned that “it will enhance the vital processes of the body.” This did not stop people from buying it and medics from prescribing it and as per usual the placebo effect took place as everyone was feeling much better only after a few doses.
The product was launched in 1918 to the whole of the United States. Photo of old Radithor bottle (Source: Wikimedia Commons) They knew that in high doses it could kill a person, but a very small dose, well distilled with water could be beneficial. This was at a time when radioactivity wasn’t a very well-researched subject and especially what it can do to the human body. Bailey who was not a certified doctor as he dropped out of Harvard Medical School, however, he kept telling people that he graduated so everyone sort of believed him.īailey and his team of chemists had done a bit of research on radium and found some “hypothetical” benefits for the human organism. The potion was manufactured by the Bailey Radium Laboratories in New Jersey.
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