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Radium jaw, or radium necrosis, is a historic occupational disease brought on by the ingestion and subsequent absorption of radium into the bones of radium dial painters. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It also affected those consuming radium-laden patent medicines .
The inventor of radium dial paint, Dr. Sabin Arnold von Sochocky, died in November 1928, becoming the 16th known victim of poisoning by radium dial paint. He had gotten sick from radium in his hands, not the jaw, but the circumstances of his death helped the Radium Girls in court. [17]
He later founded the "Radium Institute" in New York and marketed a radioactive belt-clip, a radioactive paperweight, and a mechanism which purported to make water radioactive. [ 11 ] After exhuming Byers's body in 1965, MIT physicist Robley Evans estimated Byers's total radium intake as about 1000 μ Ci (37 M Bq ), with about half from Ra-226 ...
In 1917, glow-in-the-dark watches were all the rage. But the girls who painted them with radioactive paint weren’t told how dangerous it was.
Grace Fryer (14 March 1899 – 27 October 1933) [1] was an American dial painter and Radium Girl, [2] who sued U.S. Radium after suffering radium poisoning while employed painting watch faces. [3] Subsequently, joined by fellow workers Quinta McDonald, Albina Larice, Edna Hussman, and Katherine Schaub, Fryer brought a suit labelled in the media ...
Dial Painters aka 'Radium Girls' During World War I, young working women took jobs in clock factories as dial painters due to the pay being more than three times that of the average factory job.
#14 Photo Family Hungary - Kapeller. Image credits: Madboy74 #15 Neuschwanstein, Upper Bavaria, Germany. Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company.
Perhaps Blum is best remembered and most often referenced with respect to his diagnosis of “radium jaw” in a patient that worked as a watch-dial painter in which radium was used to achieve a glow. The story is told in the book The Radium Girls (2016) which includes descriptions of Blum's role. [20]