I Was Canada’s Cancer Nurse

I am so pleased to have found a full-sized copy of this booklet at the Bracebridge Ontario Public Library! The images have printed up very nicely and are much more legible than in the smaller version of this booklet that we have offered in the past. And, there was a little bit more in the original!  In the section entitled "The Cancer Controversy" Nurse Caisse includes two reprints of articles in support of her thesis, and additional commentary. This first-person account of the story of Essiac was written by Rene Caisse herself, in 1966 at age 78. The story begins with her introduction to the Native American formula in the 1920s, and covers her subsequent development and refinement of the Essiac formulae. In the Essiac heydays of the 1920s and 1930s, Rene Caisse came within three votes in the Canadian Parliament of being allowed to practice medicine as a nurse, based on the remarkable success she was having treating patients at her Essiac cancer clinic in Bracebridge.  She recounts the