Essiac Essentials

weight; I have just lost a little. I weighed 154 when I came up here first, and I am down to 148 now.
     
    Commissioner Callahan:
    Q You have not lost much weight?
    A No, but I think it is due to doing my own work, and hustling around. I sat around quite a lot, and was not able to. I had the pain here (indicating) and I just held my side, and that is all I could do. At night I would just toss around, and would not get any sleep.
     
    Commissioner Wallace:
    Q You have no pain at all?
    A I have some pain yet; it has an uncomfortable feeling there, but it is not anything as bad as it was. You can imagine that, when I am doing my own work myself. I go around and out around every day, and I do my own work. I was just discouraged and I had just given up. I did not expect to be living today. I went in to have a new plate made by the dentist, and I thought I would be ordering a coffin instead of a plate.
     
    Commissioner Callahan:
    Q You have taken how many treatments?
    A Twenty-three.
     
    Commissioner Wallace:
    Q It is given on the card as twenty-four.
    A I keep track of them.
    Q Did they affect you in any way?
    A Well, I had a reaction last Saturday.
    Q Of what kind?
    A Chills and fever.
    Q Chills and fever?
    A I just felt as though I was getting a cold, and I laid down and slept for three hours, and when I got up it was all right.
    Q Was that during the same day?
    A Yes, that Saturday. I got home and had my dinner, and I got chilly. I thought I was getting a cold because I got into the cold car, but it was a reaction all right. I have had two of them. Miss Caisse is doing wonderful work.
     
    Commissioner Wallace:
    That is all.
     
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    Mrs E.F., questioned by:
    Commissioner Wallace:
    We are taking a record so that other members of this Commission will get the information as well, and in order to do that, we ask that you take an affirmation that what you say is true.
    A Very well.
    Q And if could you speak so that you can be heard by this gentleman, the reporter, we will appreciate that.
    A Yes.
    ...Whereupon the witness sworn.
     
    Commissioner Callahan:
    Q You know, you do not need to mind this?
    A No.
    Q You do not feel a bit nervous about this?
    A No, not in a way.
    Q Do not be, because we want to hear about these things. It is very interesting and we want to hear it.
    A Do you just want me to tell my story?
     
    Commissioner Wallace:
    I think we might ask questions a little bit, because you have a very long story, I believe.
    A Yes.
    Q Did Dr. Greig give you any letter or make any statement when he examined you before you began taking treatments here?
    A No, he did not. He told me when I went that I was supposed to go back to him again, but the examination hurt me so much, and I bled so badly after the examination, that I...
    Commissioner Callahan:
    Q You mean the vaginal examination?
    A Yes. I just came back to Miss Caisse and begged her to give me the treatment, and she did, and after I had taken them a short time this all cleared up.
    Q The bleeding?
    A Yes, and there was a discharge mixed with pus as well before that. That is what aroused my suspicion in the beginning was this terrible discharge. I would have to change my clothing almost every day. So I came to Dr. Greig and he examined me. Of course, Dr. Greig is not my own doctor, but my own doctor was away and I went to Dr. Greig.
     
    Commissioner Wallace:
    Q Was your doctor Dr. Bastedo?
    A Yes.
    Q You were attending him before that time?
    A Yes.
    Q In 1929 he operated upon you?
    A Yes, and they always told me that those growths were not cancerous growths, but the last time when I had radium they said that they were very suspicious, you see, but yet they never said it was cancer. After the operation they returned, you see.
    Q How long did you take radium treatments?
    A 36 hours. They gave me one treatment of 36 hours.
    Q That was in 1931, was it?
    A Yes.
    Q In the Toronto General Hospital?
    A No sir, in the Grace Hospital.
    Q There was no radium treatment on the Toronto General Hospital?
    A No, I was under Dr. Wales at that time.
    Q So you have had neither radium treatment nor an operation since 1931?
    A No, I have not had anything like that since then.
    Q Since 1931?
    A No.
    Q You had an examination in 1937?
    A Yes.
    Q By Dr. Greig?
    A Yes.
    Q And you took treatment in May 1937?
    A Yes.
    Q That is the picture.
    A Yes.
    Q Tell us about the situation since that time, since you began to take treatments.
    A Well, since then I have just greatly