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1800's
Commercial use: Selling it
Medicinal use: Used for smoking and making tea in East India and Asia.
Recreational use: "mainly used to aid masculinity, strengthen sperm and regain vigor" -
Commercial use: stimulant and suppressant
Medicinal use: Used in powder form to reduce swelling of wounds and to strenghten broken bones
Recreational use: increase alertness, feelings of well-being -
Commercial use: used to kill animals
Medicinal use: disease vector control
Recreational use:endocrine disruptor -
Commercial use: Treatment for acuate pain
Medicinal use: prescribed as a strong analgesic
Recreational use:used as a recreational drug for the transcendent relaxation and intense euphoria it induces. -
Commercial use: Before it was discovered of creating health hazards, Radium was once used in such products such as toothpaste, hair creams, and some food products
Medicinal use: Radial clhoride was used in medicine to help with cancer treatments
Recreational use: The Rutherford experiment used radium as an alpha source to probe the atomic structure of gold. -
19th century
commercial use:produces a feeling of cooling similar to that of menthol
medicinal use:absorbed through the skin
recreational use: treat sprains, swellings, and inflammation -
Metallic lead beads dating back to 6400 BCE.
