People PAGE 1 - D. Hendry Connell

The Lost Cancer Serum - PEOPLE 1

BY 1930, DURING HIS EYE, EAR NOSE AND THROAT PRACTICE,
HIS RESEARCH LEAD TO A METHOD OF DISSOLVING CATARACTS
OF THE EYE.

Dr. Hendry Connell started and was president of The Hendry Connell Research Foundation which later produced Ensol.

"...during his medical practice he designed and built 'JimKatha' a 40 ft. wooden cabin cruiser."

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40 ft. cabin cruiser "JimKatha" that Dr. Connell designed and built.

Biography:

Calvin Hendry Cameron Connell was born in Kingston, Ontario August 28th, 1895. He received his BA degree in 1915 from Queen’s University in Kingston and his Medical degree in 1919. His nic name was ‘Spec’ because of his short stature allowing him to be a member of the Queen’s First Rugby team and interfaculty hockey teams. ‘Spec’ was Med’s 1919 president in his third year and was Chief Justice of the Concursus Iniquitatis et Virtutis of the Aesculapian Society in his fourth. He did post graduate studies overseas in London and Vienna.

Dr. Connell was a lieutenant in the Medical Corp. in W.W.I and was stationed in Vladivostok, Russia. He was the only child of Dr. James and Agnus Hendry Connell. Hendry married Katie Reid in 1918 having 3 children, Jim, Katherine and Hendry Reid. By 1930, during his Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat practice his research lead to a method of dissolving cataracts of the eye.

Hendry had many hobbies such as hunting and fishing but mainly enjoyed boating. While during his medical practice he designed and built ‘JimKatha’ a 40 ft. wooden cabin cruiser. His family spent many summer days

cruising the St. Lawrence and Rideau Rivers. Dr. Connell was very supportive of Chalmers United Church and started its first radio broadcast of Sunday morning services. He also instigated the re-lighting of the cities first gaslight standard at King and Lower Union streets, which is still active today.

Dr. Connell started and was president of The Hendry Connell Research Foundation,

which later produced Ensol, the cancer pain relieving serum in 1935. This cancer research became his passion till his death in March 1964.

Hendry Connell was an optimistic, forward thinking, selfless and caring without prejudice individual. This visionary scientist passed away having expended all his resources and personal energy before his serum Ensol reached general availability.

Hendry’s 1919 graduating medical yearbook stated:

“Keeps his council, does his duty cleaves to friends and loveth beauty”

Biography:

Dr. Alexander Bogomoletz
was born in a Russian jail in 1881, Dr. Alexander Bogomoletz discovered a serum he called A.C.S. (Antirecticular Cytoxic Serum). This serum was well researched and was given to the Russian Army as a healing agent. ACS healed wounds at a much faster rate suggesting that it’s properties stimulated the reticular tissues of the body whose function it is to combat disease. Dr. Connell was very interested in this procedure as Ensol was also lending itself to combating disease and cancer through the same reticulo endothelial system. Since Connell’s Ensol was a specific stimulating antigen calculated to produce antibodies against malignant growths, it was valuable that Dr. Connell obtain ACS to check and forward some of his own research. The Bogomoletz’s serum was...
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