鐳補

鐳補，又譯作鐳水，是一種專利藥（英語：patent medicine），以放射性假藥（英語：radioactive quackery）的一種著名例子而廣為人知。它是一種含有至少1微居里（合37千貝克勒爾）的鐳226或228同位素的三重蒸餾水。

鐳補是1918至1928年間，由位於新澤西的東奧蘭治市（英語：East Orange, New Jersey）的Bailey Radium Laboratories公司生產的產品。公司的擁有者是威廉·J. A. 貝利（英語：William J. A. Bailey），一個自稱為「醫學博士」的哈佛大學輟學生，^[1]並且不是一個醫生。^[2]這種產品被宣傳為「治癒活死人的良方」^[3]和「永恆的陽光」。

埃本·拜爾斯，一個富有的美國運動員，實業家及耶魯大學畢業生，在1932年因鐳補引起的輻射中毒而死去。^[4]

華爾街日報上的文章這樣評論拜爾斯的死亡：「鐳補一直很管用，直到他的下巴掉下來為止。」^[5] 拜爾斯的死亡使得美國食品藥品管理局強化了對專利藥品的管制。

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Medicine: Radium Drinks. 時代雜誌. 1932-04-11 [2022-06-06]. （原始內容存檔於2022-06-17）（英語）.
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Literary Digest, 16 April 1932 網際網路檔案館的存檔，存檔日期2010年12月3日，.
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Radium Cures - museumofquackery.com. [2013-10-20]. （原始內容存檔於2021-05-16）.
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Death Stirs Action on Radium 'Cures'. Trade Commission Speeds Its Inquiry. Health Department Checks Drug Wholesalers. Autopsy Shows Symptoms. Maker of "Radithor" Denies It Killed Byers, as Does Victim's Physician in Pittsburgh. Walker Uses Apparatus. Friends Alarmed to Find Mayor Has Been Drinking Radium-Charged Water for Last Six Months.. New York Times. April 2, 1932 [2011-10-01]. （原始內容存檔於2019-07-10）. Federal and local agencies, as well as medical authorities in various parts of the country, were stirred to action yesterday as a result of the death of Eben M. Byers, wealthy Pittsburgh steel manufacturer and sportsman, who died here Wednesday at the Doctors' Hospital from causes attributed to radium poisoning resulting from the drinking of water containing radium in solution. ...
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存档副本 (PDF). [2013-10-20]. （原始內容 (PDF)存檔於2017-12-09）.

Radithor (ca. 1918). 15 Sep. 2004. Oak Ridge Associated Universities. 12 Apr. 2005 [1] （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）.

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Medicine: Radium Drinks. 時代雜誌. 1932-04-11 [2022-06-06]. （原始內容存檔於2022-06-17）（英語）.

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Literary Digest, 16 April 1932 網際網路檔案館的存檔，存檔日期2010年12月3日，.

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Radium Cures - museumofquackery.com. [2013-10-20]. （原始內容存檔於2021-05-16）.

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Death Stirs Action on Radium 'Cures'. Trade Commission Speeds Its Inquiry. Health Department Checks Drug Wholesalers. Autopsy Shows Symptoms. Maker of "Radithor" Denies It Killed Byers, as Does Victim's Physician in Pittsburgh. Walker Uses Apparatus. Friends Alarmed to Find Mayor Has Been Drinking Radium-Charged Water for Last Six Months.. New York Times. April 2, 1932 [2011-10-01]. （原始內容存檔於2019-07-10）. Federal and local agencies, as well as medical authorities in various parts of the country, were stirred to action yesterday as a result of the death of Eben M. Byers, wealthy Pittsburgh steel manufacturer and sportsman, who died here Wednesday at the Doctors' Hospital from causes attributed to radium poisoning resulting from the drinking of water containing radium in solution. ...

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存档副本 (PDF). [2013-10-20]. （原始內容 (PDF)存檔於2017-12-09）.

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