Tuesday, July 20, 2004

 

"The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off."

Yesterday's Radioactive Supplements


Acentury ago radioactivity was new, exciting and good for you--at least if you believed the people selling radium pendants for rheumatism, all-natural radon water for vigor, uranium blankets for arthritis and thorium-laced medicine for digestion

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,670526,00.html

Good thing we don't have stuff like this today!
 
Now where's my bottle of Herbalife?



# posted by Andrew @ 4:07 PM
Comments:
I used to work in a small town in Oklahoma that had a large sign painted on the side of an old building advertising "Radium Baths". Here is a photo of it: http://www.markwshead.com/stuffHappens/radium.htmlI guess people still do stuff like this in Montana.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 10:45 AM
 
Post a Comment



<< Home

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

archives