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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ensol for Cancer | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

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