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William Bailey called himself a doctor, but his career was as a shady businessman, not a medical professional. In the early 20th century, he launched a series of start-up companies, capitalizing on the new discoveries of radioactive elements, and sold patent medicine products with lethal radioactive substances with unproven promises to cure everything from arthritis to impotence – it was said they could help you regain your youth. But instead, they were deadly.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Personne ne songerait aujourd'hui à s'approcher du radium. Issu de l'uranium, ce métal découvert par Pierre et Marie Curie est en effet très radioactif. Mais on ne voyait pas les choses ainsi au début du XXe siècle.Non seulement on ne craignait pas le radium, mais on lui prêtait des vertus curatives. Aux États-Unis, on en fait même un remède miracle : le "radithor". On l'obtient en mélangeant tout simplement des sels de radium dans un peu d'eau distillée.Cette boisson radioactive était réputée pour ses propriétés énergisantes. Elle avait enrichi son promoteur, qui se targuait faussement d'être médecin. Il prétendait même que le radithor pouvait guérir jusqu'à 150 maladies !On ne s'étonnera pas qu'une telle préparation ait ruiné la santé des malheureux qui se laissèrent abuser par une publicité alléchante. Certaines de ces victimes sont plus connues que d'autres.C'est le cas d'Eben Byers. C'est un industriel américain, né en 1880, qui reprend l'entreprise familiale. Il est aussi connu pour ses talents de golfeur.En 1927, il se blesse au bras et, la douleur ne cessant pas, son médecin lui prescrit du radithor. Dès lors, cette boisson devient pour lui une véritable drogue. Il a en effet l'impression qu'elle améliore grandement sa santé.Il est tellement satisfait des effets de ce produit miracle qu'il en parle à tous ses amis, faisant ainsi, sans le savoir, d'autres victimes du radithor.L'industriel prend des doses de plus en plus massives, buvant, au total, le contenu d'environ 1.400 bouteilles. En fait, la consommation de ce produit hautement radioactif, qui se fixe dans ses os, lui vaut de contracter plusieurs cancers, qui finissent par provoquer son décès, le 31 mars 1932.Entre autres maux, Eben Byers souffrait d'une grave affection du maxillaire, qui entraîne la chute de ses dents et la perte d'une partie de sa mâchoire inférieure.À sa mort, on place son corps dans un cercueil de plomb, pour éviter la contamination. Trente plus tard, l'examen de la dépouille de l'industriel confirme la présence d'une forte radioactivité. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Eben Byers era seguido por muchas personas en un tiempo en el que la palabra influencer no existía. Además, era un asiduo consumidor de un producto llamado Radithor, una infusión de radio que se vendía como la panacea para todos los males. No obstante, cuando Byers se dio cuenta de lo que era el Radithor, gran parte de su cráneo y su mandíbula estaban disueltos. Esta noche Iker Jiménez nos contará el desenlace de esta trágica historia. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Programa 4x96. L'Eben Byers era fill de casa bona, el seu pare era un d'aquells magnats de l'acer de final del segle XIX. L'Eben era un gandul

The 1920's was a time in the U.S. when anybody with a clever sales pitch and a willingness to pull a patent could devise a concoction and call it a "medication."  Unfortunately, the heyday of the "patent medicine" era coincided with the discovery of radium before the downstream consequences of radioactivity were known.  The wealthy industrialist, Eben Byers found himself unwittingly the victim of the hazardous set of circumstances.  This is the story of how a patented substance called Radithor, which was sold through doctors as a medication, helped play a part in bringing an end to this time of unregulated pharmaceutical madness.Sources: https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,743525,00.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._A._Baileyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byershttps://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/pills-potions-and-other-miscellany/radithor.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20160113201140/http://www.alleghenycemetery.com/images/newsletter/newsletter_XIII_1.pdfhttp://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/yoon2/https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/research/news_and_pubs/caravel/archive/2020_fall/2020_medicalknowledge.phpSupport the showSponsor: Artery InkUse promo code HISTORYPOD at Artery Ink's website to save 10%* on your order of $35 or more and show support for our show as well as for a homegrown, wonderful local company. Artery Ink specializes in apparel and decor inspired by anatomy and the human body. Whether you're in the field of healthcare or not, Artery Ink has something that will definitely appeal to you so go and check them out! (*Discount code does not apply to subscription boxes)Submissions for Mike's Trivia Challenge Segment:-We invite our audience to submit medical history trivia questions (with or without a supporting article) to see if Mike happens to know the answer off the top of his head.-If Mike is wrong we'll award you your very own medical eponym so that you can join us in becoming a part of medical history.-Submit through our website, social media DMs, or via e-mail: poorhistorianspod@gmail.comPodcast Links:-Linktree (reviews/ratings/social media links): linktr.ee/poorhistorianspod

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Eben Byers oli varakas ja menestynyt liikemies. Kun hän oli viisissäkymmenissä 1930-luvun alussa, tuulen suunta kääntyi ja hänen terveytensä alkoi luhistua. Omituisten oireiden alkulähde löytyi lopulta kolmen vuoden takaa – käsivammasta, joka ei ollut ollut erityisen vakava, mutta johon määrätty hoito oli ollut erittäin vaarallinen. Sähköposti: hiljaisiahuutoja@gmail.com Instagram: hiljaisiahuutoja Musiikki: https://soundcloud.com/santer1 (yhteys: santericorp@gmail.com) LÄHDELUETTELO: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hSud7GHE_FxDRNSMy4zFvYSrRAKTsX_F/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=116553631593863819337&rtpof=true&sd=true

In Episode 98, golf historian Dave Moore joins the show to share the tragic story of US Amateur Champion, Eben Beyer who conquered the game of golf but was struck down in his youth by radium poisoning. It goes down in golf history as one of golf's saddest stories.

On today's show, we learned all about Eben Byers. Have you heard of this maniac? Listen and find out what he was trying to get people to drink.. For the whole podcast, as well as a ton of other exclusive perks, sign up to be a Fancy Idiot at FreeBeerAndHotWings.com! Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mano , os caras tomavam xarope de radiação como se fosse yakult (por borrisse e inguinoransia). Eu poderia ir na wikipedia e control+v no Eben Byers (12 de abril de 1880 - 31 de março de 1932) foi um rico socialite, atleta e industrial americano...blablabla.. mas não ,mandei ver do meu jeito. Quem não mandar pix vai morrer que nem ele , desmontando e esfarelando igual móveis da marabraz.E reforçando,primeiro veio o caso Byers ,depois a Iniciativa Fernald (das crianças radioativas)Chave PIX : sunflowerpodcasts@gmail.comPicPay ; picpay.me/caviarumaova

In this episode, Amy puts the paranormal-a-day calendar Monique got her for Christmas to good use and tells us all about the Hose & Hound Pub in Calgary, Canada. Two words: Ghost Monkey. Then Monique delves into her favorite topic: shit the medical profession got horrifically wrong in history with the nightmare-inducing story of Eben Byers. If you liked this episode, please take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe. Edited by: Filip Đorđević

Hello Fellow Fools! Welcome to another episode, we go strong today and cover a lot of topics ranging from the story of a man who lost his jaw(Eben Byers), to the new Spider-Man trailer that had just dropped! We talk more about our past, like another wallet story, and one of our old favorite shops Pizza N' Stuff. Galo starts a new job. We also compare Space Jam 1 & 2. Ivan finally started Chainsaw Man. Enjoy!

Nessa semana, Renata conta a trágica história de Eben Byers e seu uso (e abuso) de Radithor! VISITE NOSSO CANAL NO YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCac9ZupbqFakPcL5CQgpUoQ CATARSE: catarse.me/patriaamadapodcast Escrito e apresentado por Natália Salazar, Monika de Lima Knutsen e Renata Schmidt Produção: Natália Salazar e Renata Schmidt Edição: Monika de Lima Knutsen Música: Felipe Salazar Arte: Matheus Schmidt http://patriaamadacriminal.com IG: @patriaamadapodcast Twitter: @patriaamadapod https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCac9ZupbqFakPcL5CQgpUoQ Camisetas e produtos do Pátria: https://montink.com/loja-meia-boca Para quem mora fora do Brasil ou quer produtos diferenciados: https://teespring.com/stores/ptria-amada-criminal-podcat https://www.redbubble.com/people/PatriaAmada   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight Brock does impeccable research once again.He goes into some weird history and tells the weird story of Eben Beyers and the harmful effects of Radthor.here are the links to the articles Brock used:https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/18/The-Strange-Fate-of-Eben-Byers/ https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/eben-byers-radithor-poisoning/ Our Websitehttps://jgeis1701d.wixsite.com/majesticearsonlyOur Emailmajesticearsonlypodcast@gmail.com

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Eben Byers was a fancy pants golfer, a socialite and a ladies man. He was educated at Yale and most notably was the US Amateur Golf Champion of 1906. But when he fell from a train and hurt his arm, nothing seemed to ease his pain until a doctor introduced him to Radithor: Pure Sunshine in a Bottle. Which eventually lead to this headline in The Wall Street Journal - “The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off” The Radium Girls were nicknamed the “Ghost Girls” because by the end of their shifts, they would glow in the dark. They were employed by the United States Radium Company, painting watch dials for WWI trench soldiers with a faintly glowing paint called Undark. The paint consisted of radium salts, zinc sulfide, and glue and was created by Dr. Sabin A. Von Sochocky.

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This week, Amanda and Sarah take on cemeteries in the first of many Cemetery Specials! Sarah dives into the rich and storied history of the Old Burying Grounds in her hometown of Beaufort, NC and dispenses a few spooky tales from her day as a (ghost) tour guide there. Amanda explains the origins of some weird graves in the Wildwood Cemetery in her hometown of Williamsport, PA and in Pittsburgh's Allegheny Cemetery. Other subjects covered include the possum: America's marsupial, eating bugs, cafeteria ice cream, and timeless commercials.  Recommendations:  Sarah recommends watching the British miniseries The Living and the Dead (now streaming on Amazon Prime). Amanda recommends reading "The Silent Companions" by Laura Purcell. Sources:  "The Radioactive Death of Eben Byers" by Charlie Hintz Haunted USA: Wildwood Cemetery - Williamsport, Pennsylvania   "Weird U.S.: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets" by Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman   Old Burying Grounds - Beaufort NC Historic Tours For updates on future episodes and other fun stuff, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 

One of the major challenges of our age is that there are a lot of words everyone uses as if we're all talking about the same thing but actually mean entirely different things. Case in point: "capitalism" gets thrown around a lot but it means something totally different to the Chicago School of Economists, Behavioral Economists, the Austrian School of Economics and to Adam Smith. Today, Hunter interviews Peter Schiff one of the most prominent voices in the libertarian movement, a word that has so many different meanings that it's hard to criticize as a whole. We can, however, look at what one man believes in this interview. What and how does Peter Schiff think? Well, I've got to say that I don't think that Peter Schiff's worldview makes much sense either internally, with what we know about human thinking, the historical record or what Adam Smith and America's Founding Fathers taught. In short, I don't think the cargo cult Peter Schiff is proposing will deliver prosperity for humanity. It will, however, deliver prosperity for him. In any evolutionary system, parasitism will emerge as a strategy and the same is true in human societies. You can create a following peddling a plausible-sounding worldview and then extract both money and political power from your followers. Usually, people think of this behavior only in terms of religion but, in fact, you can do it any arena. It applies to self-help. It applies to financial advice. It applies to political promises that gain you power but are so out of touch with reality that they have no chance of delivering your followers prosperity. So, let's look at what I took away from this. Firstly, there's where Peter and I agree. Wall Street has severe problems. It has lost touch with capitalism and confused self-interest with short-term greed that will line the pockets of bankers while destabilizing society as a whole. And I'm quite sure that Peter can help his followers make money by shorting the market. However, in that sense, he is little different from the people he criticizes. He profits while potentially destroying the system that allows him to profit. America's Founding Fathers believed in checks and balances. Nowhere is this laid out more clearly than in Federalist Paper 51 where James Madison writes "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." The key lies in setting the ambitions of men against each other. You make people compete and check each other's behavior. In the same way, the free market is not about a free for all. As Adam Smith, Capitalism's Founding Father wrote, “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” And one of the things that merchants of drugs or ideas like Peter will do if left to their own devices is peddle things that enrich themselves while harming the people to whom they sell. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. As I mention in this podcast, one of the reasons why the FDA was given increased powers was because of the case of Eben Byers. At the time, one of many patent/quack medicines was Radithor. It was water filled with radium. People drank radioactive water which was marketed as "Perpetual Sunshine." Eben Byers' doctor prescribed it to him (in part because he was getting kickbacks) and Eben Byers ended up becoming riddled with cancer and with holes forming in his skull. He became so radioactive that he had to be buried in a lead-lined coffin. As The Wall Street Journal titled an article about his death ""The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off." Now, Peter Schiff had never heard of this story. As far as I can tell, he never bothered to try and understand why the FDA or any other government bureaucracy was founded. As I explained to him, I understand that too much government regulation is a problem. That's why I brought Luigi Zingales on to talk about A Capitalism for the People. It's also why I'm such a huge fan of Hernando DeSoto's Other Path. However, I don't know that no government regulation is the answer because that is simply removing the checks and balances. Further on in Federalist 51, James Madison pretty much nails it: "The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions." It's hard to top that. Checks and balances and checks on that. So, if Peter Schiff believes the FDA has grown too large and wants to figure out how to check it, then I think that's a great conversation to have. Instead though, when I tried to engage Peter in a conversation about what was the proper role of government–or what was the baby and what was the bathwater–he said, "There is no baby!" He doesn't understand why the FDA was founded and he just wants to throw it all out. How to describe such a man? Well, he's certainly not very wise and if he's not very wise then maybe he's a fool. Structuring a society is a complicated and fascinating challenge. You have to recognize (as the Founding Fathers of both the American representative democracy and capitalism did) that whatever holes you leave someone is going to come in and try and exploit them. There is a hole in American public life that has been counteracted by the failures of the educational system and the media and people will come in and try and exploit the hopes and fears of the general public with plausible-sounding ideologies that potentially destroy the goose that lays the golden eggs: our society. While Peter repeatedly tries to blame America's government for the problems of the American people, in a democracy both power and responsibility ultimately rest with the people. The fault, dear friends, lies not in our Senators, but in ourselves. And there are many holes and problems with Peter's thinking. If he can't even spot the problems in his own thinking what makes him think that he can understand all the intricacies of modern medicine? Arrogance. Peter overestimates his own intelligence. I used to do that too but I've come to realize that I'm not that smart. Modern society is complex and that is fantastic. There are people who sit around all day trying to cure diseases that I haven't even heard of. And there are people whose job is to check the claims of all those people. That's the FDA. Ambition counteracting ambition. It's all very Founding Fathers-y. As someone who has spent the last twelve years doing a pretty deep dive of the neuroscience, psychology, culture, economics and political science, I can tell you that evaluating everyone's claims is a lot of work and I can tell you that there are a lot of people who put themselves forward as authorities on these things who clearly haven't read most of the things they claim to be authorities on. My ambition is to counteract their ambition. I want to lay out the material clearly enough so that you can decide for yourself what to believe. I don't have the time to also go through all the research on what drugs are safe, the science of climate change, vaccinations, nutritional information, what car to buy and on and on. I need to rely on others for that. Some of that will be done by the free market and some of that will be done by the government, but, frankly, I'd rather have it done by both. I'd rather have the ambition of one counteracting the ambition of the other. Removing one source of accountability when you don't even understand why it was put in in the first place is dumb. Can we just say it? Peter's ideas are dumb. They may make him money. They may make you money in the short-term. But if society collapses you're fucked. The end of the world as we know it isn't fun. It's hell on earth. Markets and societies are held together by trust and responsible citizens use their voice to try and create a society with increasing levels of trust. They don't profit by spreading mistrust. There are problems with government and with Wall Street and we should be respectfully challenging the thinking of everyone to try and make those institutions work better. Peter isn't doing that. But he can always change his mind. I hope he will. As of our interview though, I find his thinking to be little different than that of the Wall Street investors he rails against. It's clear on the failings in the thinking of others and very unclear on its own failings and it is an ideology that narrow-mindedly serves his interests at the larger expense of society. Is Peter malicious? I don't think so. He does, however, strike me as oblivious. That can always change. We're all oblivious to many things but there is a chasm of difference between people who mostly seem interested in promoting their own view like Peter and those (like Yascha Mounk in episode 228) who are interested in serving the people by constantly trying to find the flaws in their own thinking. You'll make your own decision. I can just pull back the curtain and help you see what's behind all the jargon and rhetoric. Peter Schiff doesn't think in terms of checks and balances. He thinks in terms of throwing out whatever's in the bath because he thinks there is no baby. In my reading of Adam Smith, Peter Smith is not a capitalist. He doesn't believe in the free market. He believes in anarchy. To which I say: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions." The people must control the government and to do that they must be well-informed and that means recognizing false prophets who profit from their false doctrine. What is Peter Schiff? Well, I'll leave that up to you to decide. Are the beliefs he's promoting as solutions to America's problems going to make things better or worse? And to really answer that question, you need to read widely. You need to manage your own feelings about the government and the market. And you need to recognize that institutions develop to solve problems and that when those institutions become problematic, you'd better first understand why they were invented before you simply throw them out.