Today , we trail the very best explosion in space , watched Skynet choose its very first target ( The International Space Station ? Noooo ! ) , and harkened back to a simpler time in medicament , one marked by theater calls , personalized precaution , and , uh , lead - lined coffins .
In answer tothis Emily Post looking at ten famous people whose medicaltreatments were the cause rather than the cure for their illnesses , commenterThe Pessimistfills in some of the details behind brand - magnate Eben Byer ’s treatment for an injured branch , the 1400 ( ! ) bottleful of radium weewee that ( not surprisingly at all ) did not chair to his full recovery , and a newspaper newspaper headline writer who did n’t pull any punches :
https://gizmodo.com/10-famous-people-who-were-killed-by-bad-medicine-1460955433
Byer ’s death was account in a 1932 issue of The Wall Street Journal , under the newspaper headline , “ The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off . ” It describe that Byers had ingest nearly 1400 bottles of Ra - instill health philosopher’s stone , originally suggested to him as a possible cure for the painfulness that had plagued his arm since strike from his berth on a hired gearing .
He develop bone loss , in his jaw and elsewhere , and died of cancers attribute to the curative . His radioactive body was buried in a lead-in - seamed coffin . When his body was exhumed by MIT researchers in 1961 , his bones were still radiating .
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