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Eben Byers
Industrialist, amateur golfer (1880-1932)
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Radithor
thumb|A bottle of Radithor at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in New Mexico, United States
Radithor was a radioactive patent medicine brand of distilled water containing at least each of the radium-226 and 228 isotopes, sold in bottles. In 1932, the illness and death of business magnate Eben Byers was unambiguously linked to his fervent use of Radithor, leading to the collapse of the radium fad and the strengthening of regulatory control of pharmaceutical and radioactive products in the United States.
radioactive quackery
quackery that improperly promotes radioactivity as a therapy for illnesses
Doramad Radioactive Toothpaste
radioactive toothpaste produced on Germany