Dr. Ewan Cameron was born in Glasgow, Scotland July 31, 1922. He received his medical degree from the University of Glasgow in 1944, and immediately joined the British Army, where he served as a medical officer in Burma for three years. A gifted surgeon, Cameron worked as a Consultant Surgeon at Vale of Leven Hospital in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, from 1956 to 1982, becoming the Senior Consultant Surgeon in 1973. He received the Queen's Coronation Medal in Britain in 1977, as well as fellowships from the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow. In 1966, Cameron published his first book, Hyaluronidase and Cancer. In 1971, Cameron began corresponding with Dr. Linus Pauling of the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. He completed many scientific studies in conjunction with the institute, and published Cancer and Vitamin C with Pauling in 1979. After retirement from Vale of Leven Hospital in 1982, Cameron was invited to become Medical Director and Senior Research Professor at the Linus Pauling Institute, where he worked closely with Pauling on many important research topics. Cameron had a son and a daughter with his first wife, Phemie. After her death in 1985, Cameron married Connie, who survived him after his death on March 21st, 1991.
From the description of Ewan Cameron papers, 1935-1997. (Eugene Public Library). WorldCat record id: 774899920
Dr. Ewan Cameron was born in Glasgow, Scotland July 31, 1922. He received his medical degree from the University of Glasgow in 1944, and immediately joined the British Army, where he served as a medical officer in Burma for three years. A gifted surgeon, Cameron worked as a Consultant Surgeon at Vale of Leven Hospital in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, from 1956 to 1982, becoming the Senior Consultant Surgeon in 1973. He received the Queen's Coronation Medal in Britain in 1977, as well as fellowships from the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow. In 1966, Cameron published his first book, Hyaluronidase and Cancer.
In 1971, Cameron began corresponding with Dr. Linus Pauling of the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. He completed many scientific studies in conjunction with the institute, and published Cancer and Vitamin C with Pauling in 1979. After retirement from Vale of Leven Hospital in 1982, Cameron was invited to become Medical Director and Senior Research Professor at the Linus Pauling Institute, where he worked closely with Pauling on many important research topics. Cameron had a son and a daughter with his first wife, Phemie. After her death in 1985, Cameron married Connie, who survived him after his death on March 21st, 1991.
1922
Born in Glasgow, Scotland on July 31.
1943
Begins a two-year period of student internships in surgery and
medicine at several Scottish hospitals.
1944
Receives bachelors degrees in medicine and chemistry from the
University of Glasgow. (These degrees are equivalent to the North American
M.D. degree)
1945
Begins his three-year Army service in Burma. For twenty years
following his discharge from active service, Cameron will remain a
Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army Reserve, under the title Senior
Surgical Specialist.
1948
Continues his surgical training in the Stirling Royal Infirmary and
the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Is also appointed Surgical Registrar at
the Western Infirmary of Glasgow, serves for six-months with the
Department of Radiotherapy, and assumes teaching duties a the University
of Glasgow.
1949
Qualifies as a Fellow qua Surgeon of the Royal Faculty of
Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow.
1950
Named a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of
Edinburgh.
1952
Named Senior Surgical Registrar at the Royal Alexandra Infirmary in
Paisley, Scotland, where he will remain for four years.
1956
Accepts a position as Consultant Surgeon, (aged 33, he is the
youngest Consultant Surgeon in all of the United Kingdom) and later Senior
Consultant Surgeon, at Vale of Leven District General Hospital in
Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Cameron's formal association with the Vale of
Leven Hospital will last until 1982. His early research interests focus on
the diagnostic and prognostic value of serum glycoprotein concentrations
in patients afflicted with an assortment of diseases, including
cancer.
1963
Named a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow.
1966
Publishes the book Hyaluronidase and
cancer, New York: Pergamon Press. Cameron's book advances the
theory that the malignant invasiveness of cancer cells might be combated
by manipulating hyaluronidase inhibitor, a naturally-occurring substance
that controls the hyaluronidase enzyme liberated by malignant tumors. The
theory, which Cameron has been developing for at least eleven years, is
founded on the notion of fighting cancer through the strengthening of the
human body's natural protective mechanisms.
1971
Begins testing his hypothesis that vitamin C is required
for the body's synthesis of hyaluronidase inhibitor.
First
contacts Linus Pauling to discuss the positive results of his daily
administration of ten grams of vitamin C to terminally-ill cancer patients
being treated at Vale of Leven Hospital.
1973
With Linus Pauling, publishes "Ascorbic acid and the
glycosaminoglycans: an orthomolecular approach to cancer and other
diseases," Oncology, 27: 181-192. This is the
first in a series of ten papers that Cameron and Pauling will publish over
the next nine years on the potential value of vitamin C in the treatment
of cancer.
1974
Begins a six-year term as Chairman of the District Medical Advisory
Committee of the Argyll and Clyde Health Board, Scotland.
1975
Named Honorary Consultant in General Surgery to the Royal Navy in
Scotland.
1977
Receives the Queen's Coronation Medal.
1978
With his wife Lillias "Phemie" Cameron, moves to
California after accepting a one-year appointment at the Linus Pauling
Institute for Science and Medicine.
Receives the Annual
Award of the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1979
With Linus Pauling, publishes the book
Cancer and Vitamin C, Menlo Park, California:
Linus Pauling Institute. The book will be reprinted by Warner Books in
1981, and will also be translated into French and Japanese.
Accepts a five-year appointment as Research Professor at the Linus
Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine.
1982
Appointed Medical Director and Senior Research Professor at the
Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, Palo Alto,
California.
1983
With colleagues at the Linus Pauling Institute, begins actively
researching the potential use of vitamin C in the treatment of
AIDS.
1991
Dies on March 21, of prostate cancer. He is survived by his second
wife, Constance, as well as a son and a daughter from his first marriage
to Phemie Cameron, who died in 1985.
From the guide to the Ewan Cameron Papers, 1959-1994, (Oregon State University Libraries)