The thin man may soon get a new lease on life from the Public Health School. Dr. Frederick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition, yesterday announced a way to make skinny people fat, but it's not quite perfected yet. In fact, right now it just works on rats.
Stare hopes to inject fat into a man's body by means of a hypodermic needle. But first, to prevent fatal blood clots, his experimenters break it into small particles in a souped-up dairy homogenizer.
Then it is squirted into an animal's leg. Within seven hours it has piled up in the body's fat depots. The whole treatment is supposed to make anyone a Mr. Five-by-Five in no time at all.
Experimenters have used radioactive carbon to follow the fat through the veins of rats, and have detected it on their breath as fast as they could collect breath samples. Unfortunately, rats have been the only successful subjects. Humans who got the shots only developed a fever and had to be hospitalized.
But Stare expects to clear up this little difficulty as soon as he finds a satisfactory stabilizer for the fat. Until then, the injections are expected to prove a tremendous bonanza for undernourished rats.
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