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Fun Context for the frequently cited Fun Fact that people in oldy times would use radioactive stuff for "health":

They didn't just do this because radiation was new and sciencey. They did it because radiation was new, sciencey, and it cured cancer. It was still a very bad idea to treat it as a cure-all (and kind of a fringe quack thing even in its day, I don't think they were teaching this in med schools), but, like, you see where they got it from.

Also, the reason that more people didn't die from the radiation craze is because most "radioactive" patent medicines were fake because whatever, nobody's going to check

Except for Radithor, which I have to strongly recommend you not do an image search on. (in addition to being gory, it has a problem where there's a genuine gruesome photo of a guy named Eben Byers who got fucked up real bad by Radithor, but his name also gets associated a lot with a gorier fake photo that isn't him, and the fake version comes up higher ranked and more frequently in search results than the real one. we live in a fallen world. annnyyyway.) Radithor was named after radium and thorium and it absolutely for real had both and it absolutely for real killed at least one person to "lead-lined coffin" levels of dead.

...Okay, at the end of this the old-tymey people still aren't coming off too great and I understand why we have an FDA now, but I do like to share Context


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in reply to @pervocracy's post:

Also like X-Rays and stuff. Even just the growing understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum and stuff outside the realm of human perception was like a "well fuck, I guess ANYTHING is possible now" moment in history that probably hasn't been replicated since. The internet may be the closest thing.

And let's be honest, like, using radiation for glow in the dark watch hands and stuff was amazing and actually relatively safe (as long as you didn't eat them). We use mercury all the time, too, and that stuff can kill you.