Ebenezer McBurney Byers (April 12, 1880 – March 31, 1932) was an American socialite, sportsman, and industrialist. He won the 1906 U.S. Amateur in golf. He died from jawbone cancer after consuming 1400 bottles of Radithor, a patent medicine made from radium salts dissolved in …

埃比尼澤·麥克伯尼·拜爾斯 （英語： Ebenezer McBurney Byers，1880年4月12日—1932年3月31日），昵稱 埃本 （Eben）， 美國 社交名流、運動員和實業家。 1906年美國高爾夫業餘賽冠軍。 因為服用 鐳補 （一種當時流行的由溶解在水中的 鐳 製成的 專利藥品 （英語：Patent medicine））而死於由輻射誘發的癌症。 埃本·拜爾斯是實業家亞歷山大·拜爾斯（Alexander Byers）之子。 他在 聖保羅學校 和 耶魯大學 接受了教育，並在那裡以運動員的身份出名。 …

2022年7月11日 · Eben Byers began drinking radium-infused water that his doctor prescribed for an arm injury in 1927 — but within three years, his bones were disintegrating. Eben Byers could have lived a privileged, enviable life. The son of a rich industrialist, he attended the best schools in the United States and had his future handed to him on a silver ...

埃比尼澤·麥克伯尼·拜尔斯 （英語： Ebenezer McBurney Byers，1880年4月12日—1932年3月31日），昵稱 埃本 （Eben）， 美國 社交名流、運動員和實業家。 1906年美國高爾夫業餘賽冠軍。 因為服用 镭补 （一種當時流行的由溶解在水中的 鐳 製成的 專利藥品 （英语：Patent medicine））而死於由輻射誘發的癌症。 埃本·拜爾斯是實業家亞歷山大·拜爾斯（Alexander Byers）之子。 他在 聖保羅學校 和 耶魯大學 接受了教育，並在那裡以運動員的身份出名。 …

2021年12月8日 · 1932年3月31日清晨，埃本·拜尔斯（Eben M. Byers）在纽约的一家医院中痛苦地死去。 他是被镭杀死的。 这种危险的物质沉积在他体内，他的骨骼、内脏甚至呼吸都带着放射性。

2024年8月28日 · Eben Byers was an amateur golfer, an alumnus of Yale, and a notorious ladies man, but he is most famous for literally rotting from the inside out after spending three years drinking radium-infused water. When Byers fell and hurt his arm in 1927, he was prescribed Radithor, a radium-infused elixir sold by a quack doctor named William Bailey ...

2023年12月5日 · Snake oil in the past has gone far harder – enough to give one man a massively fatal dose of radiation that riddled his body with cancer and literally disintegrated his skull before he died in 1932. The patient in question was Eben Byers, and he was so taken with a "miracle" tonic named Radithor that he dosed himself with it several times a day.

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Eben Byers was a winner of the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1906, and he was a finalist in the championship match on two other occasions. But he is better-known to history for the gruesome death he suffered, and its impact on safety regulations in the United States. Full name: Ebenezer McBurney Byers. Date of birth: April 12, 1880.

2024年4月15日 · Eben Byers passed away on March 31, 1932, with the cause attributed to "radiation poisoning," a term used at the time. However, his demise was a result of cancers induced by radium exposure, not acute radiation syndrome.