American socialite. He was the U.S. Amateur Golf Champion of 1906. He injured his arm in a fall and his doctor suggested he take Radithor, a patent medicine manufactured by William J. A. Bailey. Radithor was radium dissolved in water in high concentrations. He began taking enormous doses of Radithor drinking nearly 1400 bottles before quitting in 1930. The damage was already done, he lost most of his jaw, his brain was abscessed and holes were forming in his skull. He soon died from radium poisoning. He was immortalized when The Wall Street Journal ran a headline reading "The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off" after his death.
Obit
PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE - APRIL 1, 1932
BYERS-On Thursday, March 31, 1932, at 2:20 a. m., at the Doctors' Hospital in New York, Eben M. Byers. Funeral services at the residence of his brother, J. Fredrick Byers, Sewickley Heights, Saturday afternoon, April 2, at 2 o'clock. Friends are requested not to send flowers. Interment private.
Obit
PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE - APRIL 1, 1932
BYERS-On Thursday, March 31, 1932, at 2:20 a. m., at the Doctors' Hospital in New York, Eben M. Byers. Funeral services at the residence of his brother, J. Fredrick Byers, Sewickley Heights, Saturday afternoon, April 2, at 2 o'clock. Friends are requested not to send flowers. Interment private.
American socialite. He was the U.S. Amateur Golf Champion of 1906. He injured his arm in a fall and his doctor suggested he take Radithor, a patent medicine manufactured by William J. A. Bailey. Radithor was radium dissolved in water in high concentrations. He began taking enormous doses of Radithor drinking nearly 1400 bottles before quitting in 1930. The damage was already done, he lost most of his jaw, his brain was abscessed and holes were forming in his skull. He soon died from radium poisoning. He was immortalized when The Wall Street Journal ran a headline reading "The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off" after his death.
Obit
PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE - APRIL 1, 1932
BYERS-On Thursday, March 31, 1932, at 2:20 a. m., at the Doctors' Hospital in New York, Eben M. Byers. Funeral services at the residence of his brother, J. Fredrick Byers, Sewickley Heights, Saturday afternoon, April 2, at 2 o'clock. Friends are requested not to send flowers. Interment private.
Obit
PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE - APRIL 1, 1932
BYERS-On Thursday, March 31, 1932, at 2:20 a. m., at the Doctors' Hospital in New York, Eben M. Byers. Funeral services at the residence of his brother, J. Fredrick Byers, Sewickley Heights, Saturday afternoon, April 2, at 2 o'clock. Friends are requested not to send flowers. Interment private.
