Radithor

Radithor was radioactive agent composed of triple-distilled water, in the radium-226 and radium -288 ( meso- ) was dissolved, so that it had an activity of at least one microcurie.

The agent was East Orange, New Jersey made ​​after the First World War until 1931 by the Bailey Radium Laboratories, Inc., under the direction of William John Aloysius Bailey and among others called and courted as a " cure for the living dead " and "Eternal Sunshine ". According to the manufacturer Radithor should have a curative effect on many diseases and carry out the radioactive radiation the human body miraculously internal energy. Despite the relatively high price Radithor quickly became popular because of its sought-after aura, especially in financially strong sectors of the population, so that the company sold its product within five years, more than 400,000 times in small bottles as a "certified radium water ". Doctors who prescribed Radithor, received a discount of 17%. Similar funds have been offered and sold in other countries. There was even concentrates from which they themselves could produce radium water using special maker.

Only when the prominent American athletes Eben Byers, who had made claims to be about 1400 bottles Radithor as Medicine on the recommendation of his doctor to be difficult with cancer, failed him numerous teeth and large parts of his lower jaw, and he shortly afterwards under large torments died, came to 1932 strong doubts about the healing effects of Radithor and radium waters. Public opinion gave way to the United States. Radio Thor, however, needed because of the radiation damage is no longer to be taken from the market because the company Bailey Radium Laboratories had been a year before production ceased in conjunction with the first press reports about the disease of Eben Byers '.