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Linus Pauling

Pauling's handwritten appendix for Vitamin C, the Common Cold & the Flu

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Pauling's handwritten appendix for Vitamin C, the Common Cold & the Flu

American chemist (1901–1994) who holds the unique distinction of winning Nobel Prizes in both the Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962) categories. Handwritten ten page autograph manuscript, entitled 'Appendix IV, Ascorbic Acid and Other Diseases,' from his study entitled Vitamin C, the Common Cold & the Flu, on ten off-white 8.5 x 11 lined sheets, signed at the top of the first page, 'Linus Pauling.' The appendix begins, 'In addition to the common cold and influenza, many other diseases have been reported to be controlled to some extent by an increased intake of ascorbic acid. Viral and bacterial diseases that have been mentioned earlier in this book include viral pneumonia, hepatitis, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, measles, mumps, chicken pox, viral orchitis, viral meningitis, shingles, fever blisters and cold sores, and canker sores. Topical application is sometimes of value, such as the use of nose drops of a solution of sodium ascorbate, mentioned in Chapter 14.' Manuscript continues later on, 'It is of course, astonishing that anyone would contend that a substance might be helpful to you no matter what disease you are suffering from. Nevertheless, the evidence is strong that vitamin C is such a substance. Vitamin C is not a wonder drug, a drug that cures a particular disease. It is instead a substance that participates in almost all of the chemical reactions that take place in our bodies, and is required for many of them.' In fine condition, with a bit of mild handling wear.

Vitamin C, the Common Cold & the Flu was Pauling’s landmark 1970 work in which he claimed that most colds could be prevented by ingesting massive does of the aforementioned vitamin as soon as one felt the symptoms. 'Vitamin C is not a wonder drug, a drug that cures a particular disease. It is instead a substance that participates in almost all of the chemical reactions that take place in our bodies, and is required for many of them,' he cautions here. But throughout the book, Pauling was quite the advocate of the regimen, noting that he had taken high doses of vitamin C and noticed ‘an increased feeling of well-being, and especially a striking decrease in the number of colds.’ A one-of-a-kind manuscript from an important book. RRAuction COA.

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