Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory that germs which produce such disintegrating enzymes produced different kinds of enzymes according to the flesh on which they lived, Dr. Connell bred a strain called Bacillus histolyticus on cancers which he excised from the bodies of patients of Kingston's General Hospital, on whose staff he serves. He was cheered on by his father, Dr. James Cameron Connell, 72, who had also served on the hospital staff and was longtime dean of Queen's University Faculty of Medicine, Kingston. After due orthodox experiments on cancerous mice, young Dr. Connell began to inject the sterile nitrate...
Last June when the Canadian Medical Association met with the American Medi-cal Association at Atlantic City, word of Dr. Connell's cancer experiments got about. He received little attention. For one thing, he had only cancerous mice to talk about at that time. Also in the scales against Dr. Connell was Ontario's tolerance of Dr. Mahlon William Locke, who in a swivel chair at Williamsburg, Ont. with one hand grabs the $1 bills, with the other manipulates the feet of long lines of patients, many of whom are later advised to buy Locke-designed shoes...
...last summer the zealots worked. At any sign of progress, Dr. Connell, a strict but swearing Presbyterian who served with the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Forces at Vladivostok, would exult: "Gee Crippen, this thing's just coming along dandy." When he had injected 29 patients dying of cancer, had found that the 25 who survived had lost the haggardness typical of cancer victims, and felt positive that a man and a woman had completely recovered from cancer, Dr. Connell decided that he had better describe his work in the Canadian Medical Association Journal to nail his claim of priority...
Circumspectly he stated: "It is altogether too soon to assess the ultimate value of the method. Weeks to months must elapse before we can determine if the cancer masses continue to show shrinkage and absorption till their complete disappearance. Clinical evidence so far leads us to think that such disappearance may occur. ... No supply of this solution will be made available until its value has been definitely proved. The manufacture and therapeutic use of this enzyme solution is comparatively simple, when thoroughly understood. We can be responsible for no results obtained by investigators who have not had special training." Such...
...There are many instances of cancer coming back after eight or ten years. Medical men do not generally speak or write about positive results in cancer until the minimum of five years has elapsed." Nonetheless, last week the Kingston clinic of the Hendry Connell Research Foundation, Ltd. had 266 active customers, attended by seven doctors on the regular staff and three professors called into consultation from excited Queen's University. And students piling into the small city for the University's first semester had unexpected difficulty finding lodgings for themselves...