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Show STUDY MADE OF HORMONES A single county in Massachusetts Massachu-setts is footing a big part of the bill for a new scientific institution which will try to solve some of mankind's major ills. It is Worcester county's Worcester Worces-ter Foundation for Experimental Biology where problems' of cancer, can-cer, mental disease, old age, fatigue, fa-tigue, even the meat shortage will be studied, using body chemicals, known as harmones as a starting point. Dr. Hudson Hoagiand, director, told of attempts to increase the steak supply by using hormones to produce multiple births among cattle. Hormone reactions, he said, parallel psychiatric changes in mental patients; cancer victims excrete different types of hormones hor-mones from those excreted by healthy persons. Hormone studie have already resulted in a chemical, chemi-cal, Pregnenolone, which lessens fatigue. Further studies may prolong pro-long man's useful years, the doctor believes. |