brushed their teeth with radium toothpaste, and wore radium cosmetics that gave their skin a bright, cheery glow. Mixed with ...

There was a more personal reason to use Doramad radioactive toothpaste. As Mr. Dunthorne, a British novelist and poet, tells us in his memoir “Children of Radium,” his German-Jewish great ...

They put radium in almost every product-toothpaste, miracle water, whatever- and sell it as a cure for everything. After all, it does help take care of cancer. So, when girls fall sick at the ...

Marie and Pierre Curie won the Novel Prize for discovering the element radium. Its radioluminescence ... energy elixirs, cosmetics, toothpaste, and glow-in-the-dark paint for watches.

CHILDREN OF RADIUM: A Buried Inheritance ... in particular a brand of radioactive toothpaste called Doramad, which he gave to his young daughter, rendering her age at her death in 2017 ...

Joe Dunthorne’s discursive fourth-generation memoir, “Children of Radium,” unpacks that move ... the manufacture of a radioactive toothpaste that became the choice of the German army.

A conversation with his granny, who spent her childhood brushing her teeth with the radioactive toothpaste her father Siegfried manufactured, leads Joe to finally read his great-grandfather's ...

toothpaste and health drinks—a cure-all in the public imagination. In 1903 Marie and Pierre seemed to be on the verge of a radiation revolution. But only Marie would carry radium into the future.