Show Drug Made of Hair Fair and Chop Suey uey Sauce q Mau Man Aid Search for fog Cancer Treatment WASHINGTON Dec 18 UP jp- jp IC I- I C Cheap h e a p synthetic manufacture from the hair sweepings of barber barbershops barbershops barbershops shops of a drug which may give medical men a new tool for disease disease disease dis dis- dis- dis ease treatment and study of cancer cancer cancer can- can was announced today by two G George e ear o r g e Washington university chemists Dr Vincent du professor professor professor pro pro- fessor of biochemistry and Gail L. L Miller said the drug known as is still a mysterious substance but that research in other laboratories s indicated it is isa isa isa a powerful factor in the growth of animals first was made synthetically synthetically synthetically syn syn- about 15 years ago but its manufacture was so difficult that it cost about a pound By making it from shorn human hair plus the sauce used to season chop suey it can be produced at ata ata ata a fraction of the former cost the chemists explained and thus becomes becomes becomes be be- comes available for extensive sIve re re- re search The chemical is made up of oft oft t three h r e e acids camino substances amino substances which combine to form protein protein- known as acid and glycine apparently carries sulphur sulphur sulphur sul sul- to the body cells and its absence ab absence absence ab- ab sence causes various disorders in in- in eluding some forms of arthritis acid is derived from the chop suey sauce and glycine also made synthetically is used in treating muscular troubles Other scientists have determined determined determined deter deter- mined when an animal is deprived of sulphur its growth is slowed or stopped is the combination supplying sulphur to the body cells Scientists who examined the report report re re- re port of the George Washington chemists declared it might might might-b be found that is one of the stimulators of cancerous growths in the body 3 J |