As a comparison, the roughly 0.0169 g of potassium-40 present in a typical human body produces approximately 4,400 becquerels. Byers was buried in a lead-lined coffin when exhumed in 1965 for study, his remains were still radioactive and measured at 225,000 becquerels. Įben Byers, a wealthy American socialite, athlete, industrialist, and Yale College graduate, died of various cancers as a result of Radithor use. The expensive product was claimed to cure impotence among other ills. It was advertised as "A Cure for the Living Dead" as well as "Perpetual Sunshine". Bailey, a dropout from Harvard College, who was not a medical doctor. The owner of the company and head of the laboratories was listed as William J. Radithor was manufactured from 1918 to 1928 by the Bailey Radium Laboratories, Inc. This history led to the strengthening of regulatory control of pharmaceutical and radioactive products. The time of Radithor and radioactive elixirs ended in 1932, with the premature death of one of its most fervent users, Eben Byers, an American golfer. It consisted of triple-distilled water containing at a minimum 1 microcurie (37 kBq) each of the radium 226 and 228 isotopes. Radithor was a patent medicine that is a well-known example of radioactive quackery and specifically of excessively broad and pseudoscientific application of the principle of radiation hormesis. Fake radioactive patent medicine A bottle of Radithor at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in New Mexico, United States
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