Comments on: Radium – Boon or Menace? http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/15/radium-boon-or-menace/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:36:33 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Charlie http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/15/radium-boon-or-menace/comment-page-1/#comment-509942 Charlie Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:26:29 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/15/radium-boon-or-menace/#comment-509942 Sorry William, all the information I have is what you see in the article. Sorry William, all the information I have is what you see in the article.

]]> By: William Tucker http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/15/radium-boon-or-menace/comment-page-1/#comment-509686 William Tucker Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:49:35 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/15/radium-boon-or-menace/#comment-509686 I was one of the kids that had radiation used up the nose for deafness. Back in 1946, along with the deaf and blind kids expermented on with radition. Is there more information I can get on this experment? I was one of the kids that had radiation used up the nose for deafness. Back in 1946, along with the deaf and blind kids expermented on with radition. Is there more information I can get on this experment?

]]> By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/15/radium-boon-or-menace/comment-page-1/#comment-3140 jayessell Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:41:22 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/15/radium-boon-or-menace/#comment-3140 Interesting article. I heard about the guy who overdosed on radium. His jaw fell off. (Or whatever the medical term is for the jawbone dying.) I had also heard that he was hoping for Viagra(tm)-like effects, which is why he used so much. Wasn't there also some guy who thought Radium had only beneficial effects, used it to grow tomatoes which he fed to his family, killing all of them and himself? Also... the Radium watch painters... one of them survived several years. Also... a famous movie had Claudette Cobert (I think) as a dying woman.... who wasn't actually dying... pretending to be one of the watch painters. Interesting article.

I heard about the guy who overdosed on radium.
His jaw fell off.
(Or whatever the medical term is for the jawbone dying.)

I had also heard that he was hoping for Viagra(tm)-like effects, which is why he used so much.

Wasn’t there also some guy who thought Radium had only beneficial effects, used it to grow tomatoes which he fed to his family, killing all of them and himself?

Also… the Radium watch painters… one of them survived several years.

Also… a famous movie had Claudette Cobert (I think) as a dying woman…. who wasn’t actually dying… pretending to be one of the watch painters.

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