Combining bathing and radium doesn’t strike me as a wise idea: as the name alludes, radium is a highly radioactive element that decomposes into Radon, another not-so-healthful element. Back in the 1920s and 1930s, however, radioactive compounds were seen as quite the opposite: a curative, capable of curing pretty much whatever ails you. Radium was […]
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John Till, the Somerset Doctor
John Till learned his craft in the old country, and came to America with the universal cure for all illness…a hazardous concoction of harsh chemicals applied to the skin, often in several sittings. How’d it work? Better than you might expect.