#radium

Stories tagged “radium” in the Weird Science History archive — 3 stories connected by this topic.

• The Radioactive Water Crock You Filled Every Night Before Bed — and the Arsenic Nobody Noticed
• The Radioactive Tonic That Dissolved a Millionaire's Jaw
• The Watch Painters Who Glowed in the Dark

Related topics: #1920s #patent medicine #radioactivity #1930s #FDA #quack medicine #quackery