Nurse, Herbalist. Known for her development of Essiac (Caisse spelled backwards), an herbal tea claimed by many to be of positive benefit in the treatment of cancer. She devoted her entire life to the nursing profession, and early in her career first learned of the herbal tea which she believed could cure cancer. An elderly patient in an Ontario hospital gave her the recipe for an herbal remedy used by the native Ojibwe. Over the following years she refined the recipe through experimentation, and subsequently used the finished product to treat people suffering from cancer. She had treated hundred of patients at Nurse Caisse's Bracebridge clinic with good results, and during the late 1930's there was a great public pressure to have it recognized by the medical establishment as a cancer cure. Yet, throughout the long struggle with the Cancer Society and the medical profession in general, she would not divulge the formula for Essiac to the medial establishment, because in doing so she believed her treatment for cancer would be forever shelved. In 1977, she sold her formula to Resperin Corporation, in the hopes that they would be able to have Essiac approved as a legitimate cancer treatment. In October of 1978, she suffered a broken leg in a fall at her home from which she never recovered. She died at the peak of her professional career five weeks later, at age 90.
Nurse, Herbalist. Known for her development of Essiac (Caisse spelled backwards), an herbal tea claimed by many to be of positive benefit in the treatment of cancer. She devoted her entire life to the nursing profession, and early in her career first learned of the herbal tea which she believed could cure cancer. An elderly patient in an Ontario hospital gave her the recipe for an herbal remedy used by the native Ojibwe. Over the following years she refined the recipe through experimentation, and subsequently used the finished product to treat people suffering from cancer. She had treated hundred of patients at Nurse Caisse's Bracebridge clinic with good results, and during the late 1930's there was a great public pressure to have it recognized by the medical establishment as a cancer cure. Yet, throughout the long struggle with the Cancer Society and the medical profession in general, she would not divulge the formula for Essiac to the medial establishment, because in doing so she believed her treatment for cancer would be forever shelved. In 1977, she sold her formula to Resperin Corporation, in the hopes that they would be able to have Essiac approved as a legitimate cancer treatment. In October of 1978, she suffered a broken leg in a fall at her home from which she never recovered. She died at the peak of her professional career five weeks later, at age 90.
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