Now this was some cursed shit.
View attachment 1592375This drink loaded with radium and thorium was sold as a 'health tonic' in the 1920s to 30s. One rich pro golfer and business tycoon swore by it and drank 3 bottles a day. When he died a couple years later in agonizing pain, the headlines in the New York Times byline said "The radium water worked fine, until his jaw came off".
I've tried off and on to find pictures of this man Eben Byers from when he was hospitalized, but even without seeing it you can imagine this easily enough: apparently there were visible holes in his upper teeth from the torrents of ionizing radiation from the radioactive elements absorbed his mouth tissues. His lower teeth had already mostly crumbled to mush and his jawbone was being riddled to the point it was about to dissolve, which of course it did as the Times byline stated.
The rest of his body wasn't doing well either, and it's not clear which of the racing horses of his conditions caused by radioactive posioning crossed the finish line first. But the face and jaw, where he dosed himself directly 3 times a day were the most horrible to see.
