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Radithor
Radithor was a patent medicine that is a well-known example of radioactive quackery and specifically of overly broad and pseudoscientific application of the principle of radiation hormesis. It consisted of triple distilled water containing at a minimum each of the radium 226 and 228 isotopes.
==History==
Radithor was manufactured from 1918 to 1928 by the Bailey Radium Laboratories, Inc., of East Orange, New Jersey. The owner of the company and head of the laboratories was listed as Dr. William J. A. Bailey, a dropout from Harvard College, who was not a medical doctor.〔( Literary Digest, 16 April 1932 )〕 It was advertised as "A Cure for the Living Dead"〔(Radium Cures - museumofquackery.com )〕 as well as "Perpetual Sunshine".
Eben Byers, a wealthy American socialite, athlete, industrialist and Yale College graduate, died from Radithor radium poisoning in 1932.
The ''Wall Street Journal'' article describing the Byers incident was called "The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off".〔http://www.case.edu/affil/MeMA/MCA/11-20/1991-Nov.pdf〕 Byers's death led to the strengthening of the Food and Drug Administration's powers and the demise of most radiation-based patent medicines.
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