Word: radithor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eben MacBurney 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...
...went out to investigate "Radithor," made by Bailey Radium Laboratories at East Orange, N.J. Robert Hiner Winn, attorney for the Federal Trade Commission, interviewed Byers at his Southampton home last September. Last week Attorney Winn described the scene: "A more gruesome experience in a more gorgeous setting would be hard to imagine. We went up to Southampton where Byers had a magnificent home. There we discovered him in a condition which beggars description...
William J. A. Bailey, the man who made "Radithor," last week was conducting a printing and advertising business in West Orange, N. J. He is a scholarly-looking man with no scientific or medical degrees, no learned connections other than membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in which he claims a protean interest in medical sciences, chemistry and physics. For a period he worked for U. S. Radium Corp. According to the Better Business Bureau, he has been associated with the manufacturers of "Thorone tablets ... 250 times more radioactive than radium." He also was connected with...
...Bailey's defense last week was that he sold "Radithor" on doctors' prescriptions. Dr. Moyar, who prescribed the water for Byers, last week insisted that it was not harmful. Cried he: "I never had a death among my patients for radium treatment. I have taken as much or more radium water of the same kind Mr. Byers took and I am 51 years old, active and healthy. ... I believe that radium water has a definite place in the treatment of certain diseases and I prescribe when I deem it necessary." He '"knew," he declared, that Byers had died "from...
Other physicians who, according to Federal Trade Commission information, have used their professional discretion to make use of "Radithor'' include: Thomas S. Pitt of Pine Tree Health Resort, Highpine, Me.; Benjamin Franklin Bowers, St. Benedict, Pa.; Lillian Morgans, Middletown, N. Y.; Gustave Desy, Millbury, Mass.; J. Frank Small, York, Pa.; Mark Manley, Brooklyn. None of their patients is known to have died...