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by Donna M. Ivey (Author), J. Patrick Boyer (Foreword by)
This story of Rene M. Caisse describes her pursuit to obtain official recognition of her herbal cancer remedy, Essiac, her name spelled backwards. Caisse was thrust into a life-long medical-legal-political controversy that still persists since her death in 1978. A biography of a remarkable woman's struggle to help humanity.
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This story of Rene M. Caisse describes her pursuit to obtain official recognition of her herbal cancer remedy, Essiac, her name spelled backwards. Caisse was thrust into a life-long medical-legal-political controversy that still persists since her death in 1978. This research presents a biography of a remarkable woman's struggle to help humanity.-This is the story of Rene Caisse of Bracebridge, Canada, and describes her extraordinary struggle to obtain official recognition of Essiac, her herbal cancer remedy.
Author Biography
Donna M. Ivey was born in Toronto where she managed information research in business libraries, wrote the History of Consumers' Gas and contributed research to several international publications. She continued historical and biographical publishing in Bracebridge, Ontario, and has recently written papers on Sir John A. Macdonald and his times for the Kingston Historical Society.
