I well remember the first injection of the medication: Dr R O Fisher called me and said he had a patient from Lyons, New York, who had cancer of the throat and tongue and he wanted me to inject it into the tongue. Well, I was nearly scared to death as there was a violent reaction - a severe chill and the tongue was swollen so badly, the doctor had to press it down with a spatula to let the patient breathe. This lasted about twenty minutes, then the swelling went down, the chill subsided and the patient was all right. In fact the cancer stopped growing and the patient went home and lived quite comfortably for almost four years.

It was then that we started eliminating one substance, then another, until I found out which ingredients actually stopped the growth of the malignancy and could be given by injection, without causing any reaction. However, we found that this was not enough. The other ingredients were necessary to purify the blood while the growth was being destroyed, so we decided that along with the injection, I would give the medicine orally. This brought quicker results than just giving it all orally, as I had been doing up to that time.

Doctors then started sending their patients to me at my apartment, until I had about thirty a day. I had to give up and leave the city, because the other tenants in the apartment house where I was living, objected. In any case, I did not make any charge and could not afford to carry on there, so I went Petersborough and rented a house. I no sooner moved in than the College of Physicians and Surgeons sent a policeman to issue a warrant for my arrest.

When this man talked to me, he said, "I am not going to issue this warrant. I am going back to talk to Dr Noble, my Chief." I did not see him again. Next day I wrote to the Honourable Dr Robb, Minister of Health and asked for a hearing. I received a letter back, granting me a hearing on the following Monday at 2 PM. I contacted the doctors who had given me the patients. Five of them came with me, with about twelve patients.

We were received very graciously at Queen's Park by Dr Robb, the Honourable Dr B T McGee (Deputy Minister), and Dr Cunningham of the Department of National Health and Welfare.

After I had presented my case, Dr Robb said I could carry on, providing that patients came to me with their doctor's diagnoses and that I did not make a charge. He said that I would not be interfered with. I told him that my ambition was to prove " Essiac" treatment on its own merit and make it acceptable to the medical profession.

I had become an independent research worker and he said, he admired my courage, so I started out again, quite proud and happy, never Dreaming of the opposition I would meet. A few days later I had a phone call from Dr Albert Bastedo of Bracebridge who had sent me a patient with cancer of the bowel. Dr Bastedo said he was so impressed with the results of this case that he had gone before the Bracebridge Town Council and had persuaded them to offer me the Old British Lion Hotel building as a clinic, if I would come back to my home town to practice.

He persuaded me to accept this offer. The mayor and Council were very enthusiastic and with their aid and the aid of friends, relatives and patients, I furnished an office, dispensary, reception room and five treatment rooms. Here I worked for almost eight years with a large "Cancer Clinic " sign on the door.

Doctors sent or brought their patients to me. Doctors from many parts of the United States came to watch me treat, to examine patients and observe results. Patients came from far in ambulances, but after having a few treatments, they were able to walk into the Clinic by themselves. They came from far and near.

Here, for almost eight years, I treated thousands of patients, most of them given up as hopeless, after everything in medical science had failed. I always had faith that if I could accumulate enough poof of the different kinds of cancer, demanded by the Cancer Society, that they would eventually be glad to accept " Essiac" as treatment for cancer. I did not know then of an organised effort to keep a cancer cure from being discovered.

At this stage I was beginning to feel the pressure brought to bear on the doctors who were giving diagnoses. Patients would come to the clinic without written diagnoses from their doctors, and since I just had permission to treat patients who came from their doctors with a written diagnosis, I had to turn them away. They would beg me to treat them and no doubt brought pressure to bear on their family doctors, who would give them a diagnosis reluctantly. It was very heartbreaking at times. Sometimes visiting doctors would examine these patients and give a written diagnosis in pity for the patient.

Some people from Chicago who knew of my work, persuaded Dr John Wolfer of Northwestern University, Medical Division, Alumni Association of Chicago, to have me treat patients in Clinic under the observation of their doctors. Dr B ( a consultant specialist) took me to see Dr Wolfer and read the histories of the cases I was to treat - all hopeless cases. I looked them over and asked:

"When would you like me to start, Doctor?"

He looked surprised, because he had expected me to turn them down (so he told me later). We then arranged that I should be in Chicago and treat these patients under the observation of five doctors every Thursday. Dr B asked me on the way back to my friends, why I had accepted these terrible cases.

"I will show results that will surprise them even in this late stage of the disease" I said, "enough to interest the most sceptical of them" - and I did. They later offered to open a clinic in the Passavant Hospital in Chicago for me, if I would stay in the United States.