DEATH IN AGONY
Radium Water Tonic Vancouver, April 5. Eben Byers, a wealthy steel manufacturer of Philadelphia, and a former amateur golf champion, is dead because he tried so hard to keep well. While free from any ailment, lie took as a tonic three bottles a day of “radium water,” manufactured by charging water with radium gas. The “tonic” cost him £1 a bottle, and gave him radium poisoning. Small quantities of radium salts deposited on his bones set up intense suffering, and condemned him to slow death. The ease has attracted wide atten tiou, and Federal food and drug officials have issued a public warning.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 171, 15 April 1932, Page 11
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106DEATH IN AGONY Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 171, 15 April 1932, Page 11
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