RADIUM WATER.
DEATH OF MILLIONAIRE
GRAVE FEARS AROUSED. VANCOUVER, April 7. Orsrp fear has gripped hundreds of jMrsons that Hicy are in danger of a slow p ath, as a result of the fatal poisoning a millionaire steel manufacturer, Mr. Eton Ryers, at Philadelphia.. Hie cause of death in Mr. livers' case Vas an accumulation of radium salts on his bones, due to his taking three bottles °f radium water" a day. / ft' ,; 'as irianufactured by charging water radium gas, and cost £1 a bottle. •Mr. Byers was one time amateur golf champion, with an international reputa*ir,n. U,-j was not. suffering from any nil - font, but; took (ho medicine as a tonic. Jbe deposit of the salt set up inlense Offering, am] Mr. F.vers died a slow death. federal food and drug oflicials have Issued warnings to the public to refrain from taking tho medicine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21159, 16 April 1932, Page 9
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