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#EBEN BYERS RADIUM JAW PRO#
This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial WSJ story about the 1932 death of pro golfer and industrialist Eben Byers, who suffered progressive radium poisoning. This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos You may not upload any more photos to this memorial They dipped their paint brushes into the solution, painted, and when the brush hairs spread, they pointed it again with their wet lips. Friends are requested not to send flowers. Scores of young women and teen girls, were hired by the US Radium Corp and other companies in the early 1900’s to paint glowing radium-based paint on dials for watches, instruments, etc. Born: ApDied: MaMillionaire Chairman of the Girard Iron Foundary Graduated from Yale. Fredrick Byers, Sewickley Heights, Saturday afternoon, April 2, at 2 o'clock.

Funeral services at the residence of his brother, J. m., at the Doctors' Hospital in New York, Eben M. He was immortalized when The Wall Street Journal ran a headline reading "The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off" after his death.īYERS-On Thursday, March 31, 1932, at 2:20 a. The damage was already done, he lost most of his jaw, his brain was abscessed and holes were forming in his skull.

He began taking enormous doses of Radithor drinking nearly 1400 bottles before quitting in 1930. Radithor was radium dissolved in water in high concentrations. He injured his arm in a fall and his doctor suggested he take Radithor, a patent medicine manufactured by William J.
