A wellness drink dissolved his jaw. 𦴠. . . Between 1927 and 1930, Pittsburgh millionaire Eben Byers drank about 1,400 bottles of Radithor β bottled water spiked with radium. His teeth fell out. His jaw was surgically removed. Holes opened in his skull. He died in 1932. The Wall Street Journal headline: 'The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off.'
Source
The Wall Street Journal, 1932, 'The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off'; also Macklis, R. M., JAMA, 1990, 'The great radium scandal'
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