you wake up one morning with a severe headache pressing your palms to your forehead you don't understand what's happening a sharp pain radiates from the back of your skull to your jaw and you feel like your teeth are getting loose with one cough two fall right out you're shocked and try to make your way to the toilet but start to feel dizzy after barely managing to get to the sink you see blood dripping from your face on your hands you look up in the mirror and your jaw slowly falls off as the skin around your
face starts to dissolve horrified you faint and crash on the floor with a loud thud bro bro help whoa Grill calm down what is it my teeth fell out there was blood everywhere and and my face was melting and then and then my jaw fell off uh your jaw looks pretty attached to me no in my dream you dicks okay and and this is where you tell me that that has never happened before in real life and I have nothing to be scared of okay and what do I do if it has excuse me what
how too many sketchy energy drinks [Music] what in November 1927 Ebenezer mcbournie buers or eban buyers for short was returning home from watching the most awaited championship of the year the game what game each year since 1875 ivy league universities like like Harvard and Yale compete against one another in a competitive football tournament that they affectionately refer to as the game how humble of them yes well in 1927 Yale's football team the Bulldogs came out Victorious much to the Delight of former Yale student eban buers who was once a star Bulldog player himself not in
football mind you but in golf the sport he was passionate about since his teenage years and continued to master even after graduation during his Peak Athletic era he took home at the age of only 26 the 1906 US amateur golf championship trophy like most of the top amateur golf players in those days eban came from a wealthy family aside from golf his main hobby as a millionaire socialite was attending lavish parties with the Wall Street Journal describing him as an Ardent ladies man he was the son of the famous industrialist Alexander buers a well-respected and
influential businessman who gave employment to over 2500 workers in his rot iron Mill Gerard iron company a company that eban would end up inheriting and acting as chairman of the board for later on not only that but he was the owner of a bank and ran several other companies under his name plus the fact that he could afford to take his own private train from the game in Cambridge Massachusetts to his home in New York shows that the man was filthy rich needless to say at the age of 47 years old life had up until
this point been pretty good to eban buyers there's a butt coming isn't there but that was all about to change called it as he was returning tired from the thrilling tournament and long journey he was sleeping soundly on the top bunk bed of the Train's sleeping birth at around midnight the train suddenly took a sharp turn causing eban to roll off the bed and crash down hard onto the train floor when he woke up he couldn't move his left arm an excruciating pain was radiating from his shoulder joint to his palm what was supposed to
be a much needed rest turned into an agonizing accident that would haunt eban for the rest of his life eban was rushed by the paramedics to receive first aid doctors determined that his left arm was broken so they wrapped him up in a bandage and gave him painkillers hoping for a speedy recovery which sadly never happened even after weeks there was no relief from the severe pain in his left shoulder and arm daily activities had become a struggle not only did he worry about ever enjoying his Hobbies again he even began to wonder if he
would ever enjoy life again it even reached a point where Ebenezer could neither sit nor lie down peacefully he was desperate and needed a permanent solution to release him from his misery and one came to him on a sunny morning while he was reading the newspaper there was an article about a doctor named Dr Charles Clinton Moyer offering a miracle treatment guaranteed to cure any illness be it skin issues infertility or even chronic pain eban had heard about Dr Moyer and his effective treatments before so that article immediately caught his attention this magical Elixir was
a glimmer of hope something that could finally return the life that had been stolen from him without constantly being in pain so the first thing he did was was get an appointment and visit the doctor after the doctor examined him he prescribed him a small bottle of Medicine with the name rator sounds like something out of a Marvel movie rad Thor like if the God of Thunder fell into a vad of glowing green waste giving him the power of nuclear lightning well I don't know about all that but one could say it was radioactive lightning
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was thrilled and thought to himself if one dose can cure my pain and revive my strength what would happen if I double that and from that thought started an unhealthy Obsession eban started taking two doses instead of one and felt 10 years younger he could play golf again and was having the time of his life but that Obsession quickly turned into greed and before you know it Mr buers was drinking an entire bottle of rator every day he was completely blind to the possible risks of Overdose typical humans when will you ever learn that you
can have too much of a good thing it all started with a mild headache followed by toothaches and soon after that his entire body was in pain eban became increasingly concerned but instead of trying to understand the cause of it he started drinking more rator poor guy couldn't understand that the medicine he thought was The Cure was the very poison pushing him to his decline some interesting context about those times is that people people closing in on 50 like ebben here were easily swayed by Carnival barkers and quacks promising strength in youth no matter how
questionable the products might be I mean to be fair I I don't think there's a reality where I meet a duck on the street selling magic strength potions and I don't give them all my money no grill a quack is somebody who falsely claims to be skilled or knowledgeable in a particular field commonly medicine even if they actually don't know anything about it there are quite a few examples of quack medicine sold to people as the ultimate Cur at all at the time like latinum which was just opium dissolved in ethanol and was widely used
and abused for various elments despite its extremely addictive properties many remedies that were labeled as Miracle tonics or Elixir actually contained highly toxic substances such as mercury arsenic or lead the man who manufactured and sold rator was William J Bailey a former student of eban's rival school Harvard University who dropped out and was now falsely claiming to be a skilled doctor in medicine quack exactly and he was making a fortune from selling rator he claimed that drinking rator boosts the endocrine system which is a collection of organs and glands responsible for controlling growth metabolism and
reproduction according to William Bailey having such a system boost with the help of rathor was a sure way to increase healing and cure all illnesses including chronic pain he however forgot to mention the side effects that came with it now you might be wondering what exactly rator was made of that was causing people everywhere to buy it left and right you bet I am the heck is in this stuff it was just two simple ingredients high concentrations of radium mixed with water yes Bean that radium for those who are unaware radium is a silvery white
radioactive metal that has had a wide variety of uses throughout the years from treating cancer to giving glow in the dark paint because of its self-luminous qualities it was quite popular in the 20th century products like undar produced by the United States radium Corporation as a luminous paint for clock dials watch faces and instrument panels and Thor Radia a line of beauty product products including face creams and powders were in great demand thankfully we no longer put radium on our faces as its harmful effects like skin burns cancer and other radiation induced diseases became known
rathor was made by infusing distilled water with two isotopes of radium radium 226 and 228 infusing them with distilled water and there is one more property consistent among all isotopes of radium that made it so desirable it is the most radioactive element in the known universe so Radioactive in fact that it makes the air around it Glow a pale blue and it's pretty safe to say that anything that glows isn't good for you especially if it's radioactive radium is known to emit alpha beta and gamma radiations that do not pose a great danger under mild
exposure as the Skin Barrier protects us against its penetrating ability but with excess ingestion radium starts accumulating in the bones but no one really cared to question the negative effects of rator it was the early 20th century after all and people were thrilled to discover the healing properties of radiation after the discovery of EX race in 1895 to them it was a cure for everything it was claimed to prevent mental health issues treat chronic diarrhea promote fertility treat cancers and relieve agonizing pain they would take pride in rubbing radioactive infused materials on their skins and
even taking them as supplements in their diet but you can't blame them in that era the common man had little to no clue about the dangers of radiation exposure with this benefit of the doubt Bailey sold over 400,000 bottles of rator from 1925 to 1930 and tell me Grill does radiation turn you into a cool big green mutant no what does it do it tears apart your DNA causing cellular damage and eventually leads to cancer and a slow agonizing death exactly in 1930 after 3 years of consistently taking an extremely high dosage of rator eban
finally began to realize the damage he had done to himself but it was too late his teeth were practically rotten most lost his skin had dissolved in several areas of his body especially around his jaw and his health had deteriorated to the point where it took a brutal amount of effort for him to stand by that time eban had consumed over 1,400 bottles of rator he stopped drinking it but the damage was done eban's body was past the point of no return and unable to heal with his condition only getting worse all of his organs
were slowly failing due to cell death he was truly rotting From the Inside Out jeez buddy how did he even get to that point do you know there are lethal doses of any medicine well eban took three times that for rator why didn't the doctor stop him from overdosing money and greed can be a vile thing and unfortunately at the time bribery was considered a regular part of people's jobs even doctors would have their commissions set with pharmaceutical companies so they would prescribe their products to patients for rator doctors were promised a 1 Sixth Commission
of the profits on each bottle sold this also explains why it got famous in the first place there was no proper accountability or checks and balances in place to catch false marketing claims and ensure the safety of a product so widely marketed until there were a few casualties from it but one good thing happened out of the misery eban buyers was going through since he was a notable personality word of his conditions started getting around his Agony was going to be the stepping stone that would put an end to the use of radioactive elements in
medicinal tonics and prevent several future casualties from happening in 1931 the government also took notice of eban's condition and the Federal Trade Commission asked him to present a statement about his symptoms and what caused them but he was too sick to even get out of bed at the time in response they sent a lawyer to take eban's testimony at his home but when the lawyer reached there he was shocked at the sight before him the person who was once the pride of the buyer's family and led the famous Gerard iron company someone who was always
conscious about his health and had made a miraculous recovery after that train accident back in 1927 was now lying in a bed with half of his face gone what what do you mean half of his face was gone his body's Decay had reached a point where his teeth would fall out with a single cough his skin was peeling off and his entire body was covered in blood patches the tissue around his mouth was so rotten that his jaw literally fell off like a wilting Leaf from a tree the lawyer took eban's statement and reported back
to the Federal Trade Commission about his condition he explained how his whole upper jaw excepting two front teeth and most of his lower jaw had been removed and that all the remaining bone tissue of his body was disintegrating and holes were actually forming in his skull there was there's even a term for it called radium jaw or radium necrosis since eban wasn't even the first person who would experience something like this in the early 1900s radium was also used to paint watch dials because of its glowing in the-dark properties and the women who worked in
these industries like the United States radium Corporation were called the radium girls every day the radium girls sat at their workstations carefully painting tiny numbers on watch dials to make sure the brush stayed sharp they were taught to put the brush between their lips to make a fine point before dipping it back into the radium paint this practice was called lip Dip paint the managers told them it was safe and the girls trusting their employers did as they were instructed as time went on the radium girls began to suffer from mysterious and painful illnesses their
teeth started to fall out their jaws swelled and they developed severe pain in their bones some of the women even had their jaw bones crumble and had to have parts of their faces removed surgically even one of the two people credited with the discovery of radium had fallen fall in victim to its terrible effects in 1934 Mary curri a two-time Nobel Prize winner for her work on radioactivity died of aplastic anemia a fatal condition where the body is unable to produce red blood cells white blood cells and platelets during her research she would carry radioactive
test tube samples in her pocket and put them in her drawers The Chronic radiation exposure is believed to be the cause of her anemic condition if only the dangers of radiation were known at the time life for so many people wouldn't have been cut so short eban's body was affected by multiple cancers that were slowly eating away at him from the inside and it all happened within the span of a few years of consuming rator at that time after taking into account eban's condition the Federal Trade Commission ceased William Bailey's business operations and stopped the
mass production and distribution of rator it was finally labeled unsafe for consumption what happened to the quack after that well I believe all of us would want some strict action against people like William Bailey and the doctors involved still nothing of the sort was done and worse yet having the selling of rator ceased by the government didn't really stop him from further extending his business he moved to New York and founded radium Institute where he marketed several radioactive products such as radioactive belt clips paper weights and even tools that could make water radioactive man buddy
is obsessed with radium he doesn't even care that people are dying unbelievable you got that red Grill but thankfully eban's condition had received enough public recognition that people were finally becoming aware of the harmful risks of radioactive cures and no significant cases were reported after that in 1932 eban buers finally lost the fight against cancer after suffering from excruciating pain for years who would have thought that his attempt to deflect the mild pain in his shoulder would put him under the most torturous experience one could imagine he was buried in buer Creek which is the
official resting place for the members of the buyer's family in alagan Cemetery in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in a leadline coffin well Bean that's because lead is a highdensity insulator and can effectively reduce the intensity of ionizing radiations emitted by radioactive materials like radium so by lining eban's coffin with lead the risk of radiation from all the radium that was still in his body leaking into the surrounding area was eliminated but this wasn't the end of the story in 1965 MIT physicist Robble Evans read about eban byer's case and was curious if eban's body was still radioactive
after all these years of being buried so his team decided to dig out the Dead Millionaire's corpse and measure its radioactivity sure enough even after being buried for over 33 years eban's remains were still Radioactive in fact radium 226 and 228 have, 1600 and 6.7 years of Half-Life respectively so that means that it could take up to 1,600 years for the radioactivity of the radium in eban's remains only to be reduced by half eban's case was the tragic outcome of a lot of things that went wrong back in the early 20th century there was no
regulatory system for medical practices therefore it was a freeway for unqualified and self-proclaimed experts to practice medicine since then the world has changed a lot there have been several laws passed to ensure proper drug development and patient safety the food drug and cosmetic Act of 1938 mandated FDA verification for new foods cosmetics and drugs while HIPAA in 1996 enhanced the healthc Care Systems efficiency and security the patient safety and quality improvement Act of 2005 empowered consumers to report supp medical errors driving improvements in patient safety if we look back then eban buer surely had a
wonderful life ahead if he had not been swaye by a corrupt doctor and given into his blind Greed for a feeling of extraordinary well-being no matter how energetic rator made him feel if only he had looked into the possible side effects that the ingredients could have on his body there may have been a different end to the story if you enjoyed this video make sure to click the Subscribe button just your one sub helps out our Channel a ton and while you're here check out this video about how a man lost 275 lbs letting his
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