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DownloadIn 1927, Eben Byers rode home from a Yale-Harvard football game on a party train. The Yale alumnus was horsing around with his friends and fell out of an upper berth, hurting his arm. When the pain didn’t go away, he sought care from a local physiotherapist, Dr. Charles Moyar.
The doctor recommended Radithor to help Byers heal. Starting in December of that year, Byers drank about three bottles each day. He kept up this habit for two years. Initially, he felt wonderful and told anyone who would listen that Radithor was the cause of his energy and good health. He gave cases to friends and even fed some to one of his horses. But by 1930, it was clear that something was wrong. Byers had started losing teeth and weight, and he was having headaches and jaw pain. X-rays revealed that holes were forming in his bones, and he was diagnosed with radium poisoning.
Subsequently, Byers had surgery to remove large parts of his diseased upper and lower jaw. However, his body continued to deteriorate rapidly. His appearance was horrifying, especially given his relative youth at age 50.
Following an investigation into Byers’ illness in 1931, the FTC intervened. The agency ordered Bailey’s company to stop claiming Radithor was safe or that it could make people healthier. That was effectively the end for the company.
In 1932, Byers died after 18 months of acute suffering. He was alert and aware almost until his death. The results of his autopsy were on the front page of the New York Times, with a headline announcing he’d died of radium poisoning.
Byers’ death put an end to patent medicines containing radium. Public health officials quickly removed them from the marketplace. Frightened consumers disposed of their remaining supplies. Now, it might seem obvious that Radithor was never safe to drink. However, for ordinary people in the 1920s, it was as accessible as anything else you could find on the drugstore shelf.
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