Word: mesothorium
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...nothing of the dangers.* The salesman dropped in at the plant in East Orange, NJ. where Radithor was made, horse-traded his guitar for four cases (25 bottles to the case) of elixir. Each tiny bottle contained about a millionth of a gram of radium, the same amount of mesothorium...
...another distinction: most of its 450 beagles are radioactive. Their job under an Atomic Energy Commission contract is to determine the "burden" of radioactivity that a beagle (or human) body can carry for a lifetime without damage. The dogs are injected with graduated amounts of plutonium, radium, radiothorium or mesothorium. These elements accumulate in the bones and bombard tender cells with damaging alpha particles...
...Byers, 51, popular Pittsburgh sportsman and ironmaster, fell out of an upper berth five years ago returning from a Yale-Harvard football game. He hurt his arm. His Pittsburgh physiotherapist, Dr. Charles Clinton Moyar, prescribed a patented drink called ''Radithor." It was distilled water containing traces of radium and mesothorium (another radioactive substance). The dope eased the arm pain, braced Byers up. He enthusiastically recommended it to friends, sent them cases of it, even gave some to one of his horses. Last week Eben Byers died in Manhattan of radium poisoning. His close friend Mrs. Mary F. Hill of Pittsburgh...
...five women employes of the U. S. Radium Corp. who sued the company (TIME, June 4) and obtained annuities because of their luminous paint poisonings had absorbed mesothorium salts. The mesothorium made their bones decay. Dr. von Sochocky insisted that they would eventually recover, because the mineral would disintegrate within a few years. It is still present in the five...
...Supreme Court while still pending in chancery. There is little precedent to point the way legally. There is even less precedent to point the way medically. The Disease. From the Greek, necrosis (making dead) has come its ghoulish name, radium necrosis. The Cause. The paint contained radium and mesothorium salts which continually shoot out Alpha, Beta, Gamma rays. Dr. Harrison S. Martland, Chief Medical Examiner of Essex County found 95% of these to be Alpha rays. Most of the paint the girls swallowed was eliminated through the intestinal tract; a small but daily accumulating amount was absorbed; deposited...
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