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Byers did not know that his case was hopeless until two weeks ago. Autopsy last week revealed that he had only six teeth left. Both jaws were rotted. His brain was abscessed. Distributed through his bones, calculated Dr. Frederick Bonner Flinn of Columbia University, were 36 micrograms of radium. Ten micrograms is a fatal quantity...
...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 "Arium tablets" and with a "radiendocrinator, a high-priced piece of hokum that sold first for $1,000 and later for $150." His "Radithor" sold...
...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...
...Radium Waters. The fad for radio active waters was for a short time valid. Investigators experimented by activating ordinary water. Their experiments took two directions: 1) to dissolve radium salts in water; 2) to expose water to radium emanation. Doctors thought that they had evidence that waters so treated would cure chronic arthritis, gout, neuritis, high blood pressure. The Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association soon found that quacks were selling the waters as cures for "anemia, leukemia, boils, blackheads and pimples." The A. M. A. Council on Pharmacy & Chemistry withdrew approval of devices purporting to make waters...
After the young New Jersey women who painted watch dials with radium preparations began dying, experts denounced the use of radium internally. Particularly vocal were Dr. Flinn of Columbia and Dr. Harrison Stanford Martland, medical examiner of Essex County, N. J. With radium applied externally and for short periods to destroy cancers they had no quarrel. But imbibed radium accumulated in the bones. It was certain death, because, before its ravages could be recognized, it had destroyed a fatal amount of bone...