Even drinking dirty Ganges water is not considered a cruel person. In the last century, someone else drank nuclear radiation water ! This person's name is Eben Byers . What's more ruthless is that Byers drinks 1,400 bottles.
is this cruel man: Eben Byers
As a result, his body collapsed, and his body was dug out 30 years later, and it was still feverish.
Radioactive radium element
The radiation water that Mr. Byers drank is "Shen Water" , which contains radium element. The discoverer of radium element is Madame Curie .
1902 In a dilapidated experimental hut, an unknown element appeared in human vision. Madame Curie officially named this element "radium" .
Previously, after listening to Becquerel's speech, Madame Curie was very interested in the radiation phenomenon of uranium salt, so Madame Curie began to study uranium.
Madame Curie was surprised to find that the radioactivity of asphalt uranium ore is much stronger than uranium oxide. Based on this discovery, Madame Curie judged that it might contain a new substance.
Madame Curie's film and television image
After telling herself that her husband 's thoughts, Curie The husband stopped his work and decided to study the new elements of with Madame Curie .
The two of them spent all day in the dilapidated laboratory to extract asphalt . Finally, three years later, Madame Curie found 10.1 grams of radium from several tons of asphalt. The consistency of asphalt depends to a large extent on the temperature
This discovery directly allowed Madame Curie to win the honor of Nobel Prize . For a time, the "beautiful" radium element also became a popular object for people.
The popular radium element
Because the radium element is luminous and has good color, many businessmen at that time advocated that radium element could cure all diseases , and in medical care, radium element was proven to be able to kill cancer cells .
Comparison of normal cells and cancer cells morphology
For people, cancer is a terminal disease that plagues humans. This magical radium element can actually kill cancer cells, so people are willing to believe in the statement that radium element cures all diseases.
, which was originally used to treat cancer, was gradually expanded to other fields of . merchants said that radium has the effect of beautifying and nourishing the skin, and can even make the skin never aging .
Skin ages at this rate. Generally speaking,
. In cigarettes, the manufacturer said that cigarette products containing radium will never cause any harm to the human body. They can kill cancer cells after inhalation into the human body. year of longevity .
As expected, as soon as the advertisement was released, even if it was expensive, the products containing radium elements were still sold out by the rich people .
For a while, products containing radium became popular among the rich, not only because of the boast of capitalists, but also because of their high price.
"Ra Girl" for Making Radium Watch
You should know that when the radium element was just discovered, the technology of extraction was not mature. It is inefficient. Only 400 tons of raw materials can extract 1,000 grams of radium element, so the price for sale is quite high.
In the eyes of many rich people, the most expensive thing is good. If you use the good, you can rest assured and have the ability to consume these expensive products.
Radium-containing cigarettes
The people of the middle and lower classes can only lament that they lack their consumption capacity and cannot obtain such "excellent" products.
Businessmen know that the powerful radioactivity of radium can cause great harm to the human body, so merchants diluted the radium element in their products, so they dared to use it for the rich.
Eben Byers is a rich man who was cut from and . Unfortunately, Byers is so rich. He treats water containing radium as a daily drink every day, causing his body to become ulcerated.
Eben Byers gradually intake of lethal radiation elements
At that time, there were many rich people who were poisoned by the product, and Byers' example was the most famous of them.
Rich Byers
Bayers is a famous entrepreneur in Pittsburgh, USA. He became a local rich man at the age of 40. In addition, Biles' handsome appearance is the "lover" in the dream of many girls.
When I was in college, Byers liked to play golf and once won the trophy in the golf amateur competition.
After graduation, Byers worked in his father's company. Byers' father hopes that his son can learn his skills as an industrialist and inherit his steel company in the future.
Byers lived up to his father's expectations and even surpassed his father in the company's operations. After taking over the company, Byers worked hard to stabilize the company, hoping that he could play golf with his spare time.
and the opportunity , which met the radium element, also appeared in a golf game.
Hobby for giving himself life
The young Byers broke his arm in the game and was rushed to the hospital. The doctor treated Byers' wound.
Byers said that he does not lack money for , but his arm must not be broken, and he must help him with whatever the price.
The doctor heard this and fell into deep thought. In fact, Byers' arm was not particularly serious. Just need more treatment to cure .
But the doctor considers that in front of him, why don’t he slaughter a single “big fat sheep” ? Anyway, these rich people don’t understand medicine , and the rich have money.
So the doctor contacted the head of Bellet, who made the "special drugs" at the time, claiming that he had a patient who needed "special drugs" and , but he had to share the funds, otherwise there would be no talk.
Belite immediately agreed and hurriedly sent someone to send the so-called "special medicine". In fact, the special medicine is oral liquid containing radium.
The so-called "special medicine"
, who was in the hospital bed, hurriedly drank a bottle, and his arm miraculously stopped hurting. In order to make the effect more obvious, the doctor also added painkiller to the "special medicine".
The doctor told Byers that before being discharged from the hospital, he must take "special medicine" constantly and promised that as long as he took it on time, Byers' arms would be cured soon.
Unexpectedly, I became addicted to drinking this. Byers felt that the "special medicine" was too magical and could actually cure his arm.
If you drink it every day, will it prolong your life? He has no shortage of money, and as long as there is a way to extend his life, Byers is willing to try it.
So Byers asked the doctor whether he could take this "special medicine" for a long time. The doctor who had tasted the sweetness said that it was natural and sold a large number of "special medicines" to Byers.
Two years later, the "special medicine" taken by Byers has reached 11,400 bottles of . For Byers, the "special medicine" is the only way to replenish hydration in the body.
radium: Great elements have become the deadly killer
Byers even asked the chef to use "special medicine" to cook food.
results of Byers
The effect of radium on the human body is not the immediate effect of , but the gradual . After taking it for a year, Byers' teeth are beginning to fall off, and it is also accompanied by the fall of hair.
The harm of radioactive elements began to appear
Bayers didn't care, thinking that his 's work was too tiring , so he distributed some work content to the secretary and just drank more "special medicines" himself.
In the first and a half years, Byers' weight has lost 15 kilograms. He is skinny and depressed, like a homeless man who has been hungry for days and nights.
It was not until the next year that Byers' facial erosion and 's chin fell off , the huge pain made Byers feel something was wrong.
Patient's oral cavity eroded by radioactive elements
Byers began to doubt the doctor's "special medicine", so he asked someone to send himself to the most authoritative hospital in the United States. After checking, he found that his body had been damaged by radiation.
When Byles took out the "special medicine" he took, the doctor went to laboratory for and found the existence of radium.
The hospital told Byers that the "special medicine" taken by Byers contains radium element , which is a new element that greatly harms in the human body and has no special effects.
and the hospital said that Byers' has no lifespan of . Due to the strong radiation influence, current medical technology cannot treat Byers.
Bayers and Radium girls were both victims of capital at that time
Bayers decided to ask lawyer to sue the hospital before in revenge on the previous doctor. Byers won the lawsuit, and the manufacturer who made the "special medicine" was also notified that stop production of .
Finally, because of the large amount of rays in the body, Byers' body was loaded into a special coffin and buried in the soil.
Byers' remains may also have radioactive
Decades later, in order to study the impact of radiation on the human body, scientists dug out Byers' body and found that the bone was broken and , as if it had been dead for hundreds of years, but it was still heating up, deepening the shadow on the radioactive elements.
