Mr Byers was also a skilled athlete who played golf and polo. In 1927, he fell off abed on a train and injured his arm, which reportedly hampered his participation in athletic events.

If the Radium Girls thought Element 88 merely fun and harmless, Eben Byers and many others saw it as a magical health cure, as did many medical "authorities" of Byers' day, some licensed, many not.

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Businessman Eben Byers believed in Radisol and drank it a lot. Byers suffered from arm pain after injuring his arm in 1927 when he fell from the bed of a sleeping car.

Eben Byers was a rich American steel industrialist and amateur golfer who fell and injured his arm during a train ride in 1927. All of these facts would be unremarkable, ...