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He later founded the "Radium Institute" in New York and marketed a radioactive belt-clip, a radioactive paperweight, and a mechanism which purported to make water radioactive. [ 11 ] After exhuming Byers's body in 1965, MIT physicist Robley Evans estimated Byers's total radium intake as about 1000 μ Ci (37 M Bq ), with about half from Ra-226 ...
Radithor was manufactured from 1918 to 1928 by the Bailey Radium Laboratories of East Orange, New Jersey. The owner of the company and head of the laboratories was listed as William J. A. Bailey, a dropout from Harvard College, [1] who was not a medical doctor. [2] It was advertised as "A Cure for the Living Dead" [3] as well as "Perpetual ...
William John Aloysius Bailey (May 25, 1884 – May 17, 1949) was an American patent medicine inventor and salesman. A Harvard University dropout, Bailey falsely claimed to be a doctor of medicine and promoted the use of radioactive radium as a cure for coughs, flu, and other common ailments. [1]
The radium fad or radium craze of the early 20th century was an early form of radioactive quackery that resulted in widespread marketing of radium-infused products as being beneficial to health. [1] Many radium products contained no actual radium, in part because it was prohibitively expensive, which turned out to be a grace, as high levels of ...
He describes his father as a man who drank and was prone to violent outbursts, and who was raised by an abusive father himself. A man, he writes, who grew jealous of his son’s career and “was ...
A sicko from New Jersey allegedly took part in a neo-Nazi child-porn ring whose members groomed children online and extorted them to send self-produced, sexually-explicit videos, federal ...
A woman was on her deathbed. There was one drug that the doctors said would save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to produce. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the ...
Diaz testified last week that he doesn’t remember punching and kicking his friend Otoniel Guzman Desdicho more than 30 times after running into him following a drinking binge on Nov. 26, 2022 ...