Dr. Calvin Hendry Cameron Connell was a man improbable as his very name. It does not appear in bold type in the history of modern medicine, at least not yet. Born in Canada in the nineteenth century, Connell was well known for his intelligence, energy and dedication to medical research. And yet, year after year, he would have to brave the opposition, even ridicule, of the most powerful figures in his profession. Eventually, Dr. Connell carried his research forward in isolation... and this man may have come closer than anyone before or since, to solve cancer’s cruel riddle.

Dr. Connell researched cancer during the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s in his Queen’s University lab. The latter years were researched in his own Hendry-Connell Research Foundation Lab. The enzyme solution ‘Ensol’ which he discovered in 1935, later found to be an antigen, dissolved cataracts, liquefied cancer cells, extended the lives of thousands, produced no ill side-effects and was in demand across Canada, the States and as far away as Australia and Africa. Dr. Connell was very careful in stating it was not a cure but -

“Early treatment at home by the attending physician in addition to the use of surgery and radiation... ought to reduce the mortality of the disease”.

Between 1935 and 1939 there were more than 22 patents applied for and received in over 12 countries. The most important of these being the Canadian patent in 1936 and the American patent in 1943, which granted Dr. Connell’s Ensol a ‘pain-alleviating material’. Most European countries were included, along with Japan, Ireland and Brazil.

As early as 1936, more than 2,000 cancer patients across Canada and the U.S. were injected with Ensol and reported considerable improvement. By the end of 1935 there had been more than 13,600 cc’s distributed to clinics and doctors in North America as well as Australia. Case studies such as, Mrs. Flora O’Brian who’s leg was saved

from amputation after having been diagnosed with bone cancer and who eventually lived to be 92 years of age, or case number 255, who’s nasal bone had completely disappeared but had reported no pain and a return of appetite two months after Ensol treatments or, the convicted bank robber who was let out of prison, expecting to die with fatal stomach cancer but gained 32 pounds and was able to return to his east coast home after treatments alive and well. Dr. Connell’s Ensol was free of charge to anyone agreeing to treatment through their physician.

During the late 1930’s and 40’s the Hendry-Connell Research Foundation was supported by Queen’s University, the Canadian Federal and Provincial Governments, the Canadian Cancer Commission and the prestigious Irenee Dupont family through the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia who had given substantial funding and continued to do so until 1946.
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