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Seven Times Safety. The salesman drank three cases, generously let his sister have the fourth case. He would have taken more, but fortunately for him-and others-the Radithor outfit went out of business. Recently, responding to M.I.T.'s invitation, he presented himself for a checkup. Dr. Robley Dunglison Evans, 51, had him breathe into a glass flask, to test for radon gas in his breath, and into a mask hooked up to another flask to test for another gas, thoron, that has a half life of only 54 seconds. An ultra-sensitive scintillation counter scanned his whole body...
Radium-Treated Patients University research center looking for persons who received radium injections or who drank radium solutions, such as "Radithor," before 1935. Write Z7516- Advt...
...radium tonic to pep him up. His doctor saw nothing against it-for these were the days when many medical men were playing fast and loose with radium preparations, knowing and recking nothing of the dangers.* The salesman dropped in at the plant in East Orange, NJ. where Radithor was made, horse-traded his guitar for four cases (25 bottles to the case) of elixir. Each tiny bottle contained about a millionth of a gram of radium, the same amount of mesothorium...
...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...