![]() ![]() He opened Radium Services at 19th and Chestnut Streets in 1919 and in 1934 became a sales agent for radium from the Eldorado Mining and Refining Company of Canada. After the war, Hartman returned to Philadelphia and started selling radium products. In 1917, when the United States entered World War I, he was recruited by the army to inspect luminescent dials. He attended Saint John Cantius School until the eighth grade, when he left school and went to work at Scientific Instrument Company. This collection is arranged into eight series: “Correspondence,” “Scrapbooks," Diaries and Notes,” “Research files,” “Promotional materials and equipment lists,” “Curie family information,” “Interviews,” “Photographs,” and “Publications.”įrank Janczak Hartman was a radium specialist and consultant, born Augin the Bridesburg neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hartman the radium industry, sales and recovery atomic energy in Canada the history of the discovery of radium and the Curie family and how atomic energy affected the United States. This collection will be extremely valuable to a researcher interested in Frank J. Hartman, who owned two companies dealing with radium, clearly saw the product’s value, but he also recognized the potential dangers and the damage that could result from the improper usage, storage and disposal of these materials. Hartman papers provide an insightful view into the changes atomic energy brought to society. ,, MSS 2/0340-1, Frank Hartman papers, 1904-1977, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.Ĭorrespondence, Diaries, Lantern slides, Lecture notes, Photographs, Publications, Reports, Reprints, and Scrapbooks Abstract:įrank Janczak Hartman (1893-1986) was a radium specialist and consultant who also worked as a “radium hound,” searching for pieces lost by area hospitals and industry until his retirement in 1956. 16 containers, 2 volumes, 5 framed items.Byers, wealthy Pittsburgh steel manufacturer and sportsman, who died here Wednesday at the Doctors' Hospital from causes attributed to radium poisoning resulting from the drinking of water containing radium in solution.Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Extent: Federal and local agencies, as well as medical authorities in various parts of the country, were stirred to action yesterday as a result of the death of Eben M. Friends Alarmed to Find Mayor Has Been Drinking Radium-Charged Water for Last Six Months. ↑ Denies It Killed Byers, as Does Victim's Physician in Pittsburgh.Theodore Gray's Periodic Table of Elements.Radithor at the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection.A physiotherapist recommended the drink to him and "for the next two years (he) gulped two or three bottles a day". 1990) describing the Byers incident was titled The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off. īyers's death led to the strengthening of the Food and Drug Administration's powers and the demise of most radiation-based patent medicines. Byers was buried in a lead-lined coffin when exhumed in 1965 for study, his remains were still highly radioactive. Įben Byers, a wealthy American socialite, athlete, industrialist and Yale College graduate, died from Radithor radium poisoning in 1932. The expensive product was claimed to cure impotence, among other ills. It was advertised as "A Cure for the Living Dead" as well as "Perpetual Sunshine". Bailey, a dropout from Harvard College, who was not a medical doctor. The owner of the company and head of the laboratories was listed as William J. Radithor was manufactured from 1918 to 1928 by the Bailey Radium Laboratories, Inc., of East Orange, New Jersey. It consisted of triple distilled water containing at a minimum 1 microcurie (37 kBq) each of the radium 226 and 228 isotopes. Radithor was a patent medicine that is a well-known example of radioactive quackery and specifically of excessively broad and pseudoscientific application of the principle of radiation hormesis. Radioactive energy drink in the early 20th century.
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