#radithor

[dailydoseofoldshit]

Sourced from the 8 April 1932 issue of The Imperial Valley Press; page 1 - accessed via Chronicling America.

[voteforevilthoughts]

Me not paying attention to the video playing overhears "cure for chronic pain" and whip my head up to realise they're talking about Eben Byers...yea that ain't no cure...

[pennzooky]

Has anyone else always kinda wanted to try Radithor or is it just me? Like why was Eben Byers so obsessed with it? It must’ve tasted good right?

Anyway I think it could make a big comeback, hear me out.

[the-fact-site]

In the 1920s, a health tonic called Radithor, which contained radioactive isotopes, was sold in the US. It was recalled after the death of its biggest fan. #FACT

[atomicbug]

Imagine being so obsessed with a dead guy that you spend two years shuffling through newspapers from a hundred years ago just for a few breadcrumbs of information.

Couldn’t be me.

[citragranate-arts]

So, uh, went on a Tesla sketch phase for a day or so-

@ecto-hazard

Also slight angst for the bottom two.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Ebenezer McBurney Byers (April 12, 1880 – March 31, 1932) was a wealthy American socialite, athlete, and industrialist. He won the US Amateur in 1906 in golf. He gained notoriety in the early 1930s when he died of radiation-induced cancers after consuming Radithor, a popular patented drug made from radium dissolved in water.

On March 31, 1932, Eben Byers was officially declared dead, diagnosed with multiple radiation-induced cancers. At 51, the former athlete suffered from weight loss, headaches and falling teeth, resulting in the almost total decomposition of his lower jaw, deteriorated by excess liquid radium.

[moondustmanwise]

heya kids who wants to drink radithor and be buried in a lead coffin?