Positive Effects Of Radium During The 20th Century

During the 20th century, the element radium was used for commercial purposes and medicinal. While radium had some positive effects in both these areas, many people failed to see that radium actually had deadly capabilities. One example of the deadliness? Of radium in human life was with an energy drink called Radithor. The drink had radium dissolved in the solution. The owners of the company preached the benefits of the drink and that it could possibly increase sexual desire. In this way, many people at the time, who didn’t know the harmful abilities of radium, bought the drink thinking it would help them. Those people could not have been more wrong. CNN News wrote an excerpt on a famous golfer named Eben Byers who sweared by the Radithor