Will Radium Restore Youth? (1923)
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From the time Marie Curie and her husband Pierre discovered radium in 1898, it was quickly understood that the new element was no ordinary metal. It was soon viewed as a wondrous and powerful element: a cure for cancer, and a source of beauty and vitality. When the Curies finally isolated pure radium they determined that the substance was a million times more radioactive than uranium.
Coupled with radium’s extraordinary radioactivity and unnatural blue glow, the mineral was soon touted as a cure for everything including cancer, blindness, and baldness, even though radioactivity had only been used to treat malignant tumors. As Popular Science reported in June 1923, it was even believed that a daily glassful of radium-infused water would restore youth and extend life, making it the latest in a long line of miraculous elixirs. ~ More on Radium as Elixir of Youth / Popular Science
Will Radium Restore Youth? Popular Science Monthly June 1923
Radium and Beauty / Radior: New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]), 23 Feb. 1919. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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Created / Published: 1924.
Library of Congress: 2002707166