This is the story of Rene M. Caisse of Bracebridge, Canada and describes her extraordinary perseverance to obtain official recognition of her herbal cancer remedy she called Essiac, her name spelled backwards. Rene Caisse was thrust into a life-long medical-legal-political controversy that still persists since her death in 1978. Rene wrestled with the Hepburn government of Ontario over the operation of her Bracebridge cancer clinic during 1935 to 1941 and her use of Essiac. She refused to reveal her secret formula and legislation demanding the recipe forced the closing of her clinic. The government was embroiled in the dilemma of ensuring their public favour and appeasing cancer patients. This documented research presents a biography of a remarkable woman and her struggle to help "suffering humanity."
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Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 8
- FOREWORD 9
- PREFACE 24
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 26
- INTRODUCTION 29
- CHAPTER 1 - A NURSE DEBUTS 31
- CAISSE FAMILY COMES TO BRACEBRIDGE 31
- RENE BEGINS SCHOOL 34
- RENE CAISSE, THE NURSE 37
- TEMISKAMING, NORTHERN ONTARIO 40
- RENE’S NEW HOME IN HAILEYBURY 43
- RENE LEAVES NORTHERN ONTARIO 44
- CAISSE FAMILY MOVES TO TORONTO 46
- CHAPTER 2 - QUITE A CAPABLE NURSE 48
- MORE NURSING TRAINING 48
- SCENE OF RENE’S DISCOVERY DESTROYED 52
- RENE’S AUNT GIVEN HERBAL TEA 56
- FIRST INJECTION 57
- HERBAL TEA BECOMES “ESSIAC” 60
- CHAPTER 3 - ESSIAC IS DEVELOPED 62
- RENE GATHERS SUPPORT 62
- DR. BANTING AT CHRISTIE STREET HOSPITAL 64
- RENE’S MOTHER TREATED WITH ESSIAC 69
- CANCER COMMISSION ESTABLISHED IN ONTARIO 70
- TORONTO NEWSPAPER HEADLINES 71
- PATIENTS RECEIVE HELP 74
- FIRST ATTEMPT TO SELL ESSIAC 75
- RENE MOVES TO SHERBOURNE STREET 75
- NEARLY ARRESTED IN PETERBOROUGH 76
- CHAPTER 4 - CLINIC OF HOPE 78
- BRACEBRIDGE TO GET CANCER CLINIC 78
- NEW LIFE FOR OLD HOTEL 79
- PRIVATE HOSPITAL REQUIREMENTS 82
- THE RENE M. CAISSE CANCER CLINIC OPENS 84
- LETTERS TO ROYALTY 88
- CHAPTER 5 - DR. BANTING AND CANCER RESEARCH 90
- NEW PETITION 90
- SUPPORTIVE LETTERS 91
- DELEGATION TO QUEEN’S PARK 93
- BANTING DISCUSSES TESTING 96
- ROYAL RESPONSES 99
- CLINIC OF HOPE 100
- CHAPTER 6 - U.S. & CANADIAN MEDICAL INTEREST 103
- CAISSE TO LEAVE CANADA? 103
- CHICAGO TRIALS 106
- RALLY FOR ESSIAC 112
- CANCER LEGISLATION PLANNED? 114
- CLINIC ENLARGED 115
- PREMIER’S SUPPORT 117
- BANTING TO EXAMINE ESSIAC? 118
- A SUMMER OF EVENTS 119
- CHAPTER 7 - U.S. & PROVINCIAL RECOGNITION 121
- AMERICAN DOCTORS COME TO BRACEBRIDGE 121
- CLINIC ROUTINES 122
- DR. LEONARDO OF BUFFALO 125
- PROVINCIAL ELECTION LOOMING 127
- RENE’S PUBLICITY 130
- CHAPTER 8 - LEGISLATION FOR CANCER REMEDIES 134
- RENE A MEDICAL DOCTOR? 134
- QUEEN’S PARK MAY DEMAND SECRET CANCER SERUMS 135
- HEPBURN SCOLDED 136
- THE PRIVATE BILLS 140
- CANCER COMMISSION TO BE FORMED 142
- DEBATE OF PRIVATE BILL 144
- SOME BILLS FAIL 150
- ONE OF THE GREATEST HUMANITARIANS 152
- KIRBY BILL PASSED 153
- CHAPTER 9 - THE CANCER REMEDY ACT 154
- FEDERAL CANCER CURE ISSUES 154
- CLINIC THREATENED 155
- ANOTHER DELEGATION TO TORONTO 161
- RENE MARRIES CHARLES MCGAUGHEY 163
- CANCER COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED 164
- UNWANTED PUBLICITY 169
- THE COMMISSIONERS MEET 170
- CHAPTER 10 - CLINIC UNDER CLOSE SCRUTINY 172
- HEARING IN BRACEBRIDGE 172
- PATIENTS TESTIFY 175
- RENE UNDERGOES SURGERY 177
- REPORT OF BRACEBRIDGE ENQUIRY 177
- COMMISSIONERS FURTHER INVESTIGATE 179
- RENE REELS FROM ATTACKS 184
- ESSIAC PATENT PROPOSED 185
- CHAPTER 11 - CANCER COMMISSION HEARINGS 187
- SECRET HEARINGS IN CAMERA 187
- RENE ON THE STAND 189
- DR. GUYATT ON THE STAND 194
- REFUSAL TO DIVULGE FORMULA 196
- INTIMIDATION 199
- THE LONG SUMMER WAIT 202
- CHAPTER 12 - COMMISSION ADMITS ESSIAC SUCCESS 203
- AWAITING REPORT 203
- INTERIM REPORT NOW PUBLIC 208
- RENE CAISSE ON CANCER 209
- LOCAL PRESS LAUDS RENE 210
- RENE CAISSE REFUTES COMMISSION REPORT 213
- ESSIAC’S IMPACT ON CANCER 215
- RENE’S HEALTH SUFFERS 216
- CHAPTER 13 - CLINIC CLOSES — WAS IT TO BE? 218
- THE CLINIC CLOSES 218
- WAS IT TO BE? 219
- RMC KIDNEY TABLETS 221
- RENE CONTINUES CANCER TREATMENTS 222
- CHARLES DIES 223
- WARTIME PRESSURES 224
- RENE ESTABLISHES A NEW HOME 225
- DEMAND FOR ESSIAC CONTINUES 226
- CANCER COMMISSION CONTINUES 228
- U.S. PUBLICATIONS PROBE RENE’S ACTIVITIES 231
- U.S. FRATERNITIES PROBE ESSIAC 232
- CHAPTER 14 - AN ACTIVE RETIREMENT 235
- RENE TRIES RETIREMENT 235
- FIRST BIOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATION 237
- “GRANDMA MOSES” 240
- RENE TRIES SLOAN-KETTERING AGAIN 241
- CHAPTER 15 - ESSIAC STORY SPARKS NATIONAL INTEREST 248
- HOMEMAKER’S MAGAZINE GETS INVOLVED 248
- A VISIT WITH DR. C. CHESTER STOCK 250
- RENE REJECTS A TRUST 253
- ADVANCE COPIES OF HOMEMAKER’S MAGAZINE 256
- HOMEMAKER’S MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTED 260
- SECRET FORMULA IN SAFEKEEPING 263
- TRIALS NOT GOING WELL 264
- REACTIONS TO HOMEMAKER’S STORY 265
- ESSIAC FORMULA TO BE REVEALED 265
- CHAPTER 16 - RESPERIN GAINS ESSIAC 266
- FORMULA RELEASED TO RESPERIN CORPORATION 266
- TERRIBLE TIMING 269
- THE FUTURE OF ESSIAC 270
- THE STORY OF DAVID FINGARD 271
- RESPERIN CORPORATION FORMED 274
- ESSIAC AND LAETRILE IN PUBLIC FORUM 277
- RESPERIN TO PROCEED 279
- CHAPTER 17 - ESSIAC IN U.S. COURT AND RENE DIES 281
- FINGARD CONTINUES PROMOTION 281
- RENE, A CONSULTANT 283
- NINETIETH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS 283
- CANADIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES TESTING 286
- PATIENTS KEEP COMING 288
- THE ESSIAC NURSE SLIPS AWAY 288
- CHAPTER 18 - ESSIAC CONTINUES 291
- HOPE FOR ESSIAC 291
- RENE CAISSE MEMORY KEPT ALIVE 292
- ESSIAC TRIALS 293
- EMERGENCY DRUG RELEASE PROGRAM 296
- RESPERIN IN JEOPARDY 296
- THE PRODUCTION OF ESSIAC 297
- DUKE-FINGARD TREATMENT RESURFACES 299
- CHAPTER 19 - RENE CAISSE REMEMBERED 300
- PETITIONS SUPPORT ESSIAC 300
- DAVID FINGARD DIES — ESSIAC LIVES 301
- PUBLICATIONS ABOUT ESSIAC CONTINUE 303
- THE FIGHT OVER THE FORMULA 304
- ESSIAC CLONED 306
- MEMORIALS TO A NOTABLE NURSE 308
- CANCER COMMISSION WITHDRAWS 310
- EPILOGUE 311
- ALTERNATIVE CANCER REMEDIES 311
- SIMPLICITY IS THE SEAL OF TRUTH — A PARALLEL TO RENE CAISSE 312
- APPENDIX 315
- ENDNOTES 318
- Chapter 1 318
- Chapter 2 320
- Chapter 3 322
- Chapter 4 324
- Chapter 5 325
- Chapter 6 326
- Chapter 7 328
- Chapter 8 329
- Chapter 9 331
- Chapter 10 333
- Chapter 11 334
- Chapter 12 334
- Chapter 13 336
- Chapter 14 338
- Chapter 15 339
- Chapter 16 340
- Chapter 17 341
- Chapter 18 343
- Chapter 19 343
- Epilogue 344
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 345
- INDEX 348