Vitamin C and the Common

Pauling, L. (1970) Vitamin C and the Common Cold, Freeman, San Francisco, California... 

Pauling finally wearied of trying to convince medical professionals about the benefits of megadoses of vitamin C and took his case directly to the public. His book, Vitamin C and the Common Cold, was a best seller. Sales of the vitamin soared. Nevertheless, his dispute with physicians persisted, with Pauling advocating for huge doses of vitamin C and the medical profession pooh-poohing his ideas. 

Hemila H (1992) Vitamin C and the common cold. British Journal of Nutrition 67, 3-16. 

Publishes Vitamin C and the Common Cold, which convinces tens of thousands of people to take more vitamin C... 

The use of megadoses of vitamin C was championed by the late Linus Pauling in his books Vitamin C and the Common Cold (1970) and Vitamin C the Common Cold and the Flu (1976). He advises ... 

Pauling L (1974) Early evidence about vitamin C and the common cold. J Orthomol Psychiatry 3 139... 

Last year I published a small book. Vitamin C and the Common Cold, in which I presented the evidence supporting the conclusion that ascorbic acid ingested in larger amounts than the recommended daily allowance has value in decreasing the incidence and severity of the common cold and related infectious diseases (9). 

Vitamin C and the common cold — after 23 years. Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine Newsletter (Winter 1992-93) 2—3. 

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