Vintage: When radium was a trend

Clothing, chocolate, cigarettes, condoms, fertilizers, water fountains, spa treatments, cosmetics, medicines...: radium was the fashionable material until the 1940's.

For decades, many doctors believed that radium was harmless. It was the most unlikely product that came on the market without the worrying or worried, even after it was determined to be harmful.

Despite the first scandal in 1917 with the Radium Girls Trials* and the discovery of the toxicity of rays by Hermann J. Muller in 1927, radium attracted; radium sold; and radium cured all ailments, rejuvenates, restored sexual vigor, and brought the comfort of modern life. Future was bright.

*Workers of the US Radium, the Radium Girls were exposed at length to the radium contained in the paintings they used to paint luminous watch dials. Broadly relayed by the media the case led to major advances in the field of health and in that of the movement for the rights of employees.