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 …

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 ...

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。

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.

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.

2022年7月21日 · Eben Byers was a wealthy American businessman who became famous in the early 1930s after ingesting large amounts of Radium or Radithor. What is Radium, and what does it do? It is a radioactive element discovered in 1898 by Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre. When ingested, it can cause severe health problems, including cancer. Eben

3 天之前 · But who exactly was Byers, and how did he end up as the face of one of the biggest medical disasters of the early 20th century? Let’s find out. The Life of Eben Byers: From Yale Dropout to Amateur Golf Champion. In 1906, Eben Byers enrolled at Yale College, where he built a reputation as a well-connected American socialite.

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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.

Byers had consumed more than three times the lethal dose of radium by the time he stopped taking Radithor in 1930. Cancer was eating away at his bones. His upper and lower jaw had decayed – a condition called “radium jaw.”