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...fool in dealing with doctors, businessmen and sick people, Dr. Calvin Hendry Cameron Connell of Kingston, Ont., whom the Press widely but ignorantly last week saluted as the Conqueror of Cancer, had already taken care to incorporate the Hendry Connell Research Foundation, Ltd. (capital, $50,000) to keep benign control of his system of treatment. Previously he had patented the manufacture of the hypodermic solution he uses and taken a copyright on Ensol, his apt name for the solution...
...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...
...Connell's side of the scales of medical opinion, however, was the history of insulin, cure for diabetes, discovered by young Dr. Frederick Grant Banting and his student helper, Charles Herbert Best, at Toronto, 100 miles from Kingston, despite the impatience of their Uni-versity of Toronto superiors. Dr. Connell also had an assistant, Bertram J. Hols-grove, 31, whose initial job had been to wash test tubes and dishes. The pair regularly worked 14 to 16 hours daily. Dr. Connell abandoned his profitable eye-ear-nose-&-throat practice. Some apostolic members of Queen's University medical faculty...
...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...
...Some years ago, engaged in research in the economic geography of Jamaica, B. W. I., I sat one afternoon with a group of Britishers who were polite enough to ask my opinion of their principal city, Kingston. I had been there only a few days and was not ready with opinions, but ventured to observe that I had been struck by the apparent concentration of business in the hands of one principal merchant. What did I mean, they wanted to know. "Why," said I, as solemnly as possible, and with the Government mail wagons in mind, "the streets seem...