Re: As Well As Combating Colds, Mega-dose Vitamin C May Be a Life- Saver in the Fight Against the Incurable.

[Guest guest]

Logan: the very fact that " The findings were published in a medical

journal, " and no mention is made of which journal or any specifics should

have raised your antennae. I suspect that the findings were not published

anywhere reputable or mainstream or the good doctor would have given more

information.

Here is what " Quackwatch " says about Vitamin C " cures " :

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pauling.html

on 4/14/2005 8:23 AM, Logan at loganruns73@... wrote:

> 13 Apr 2005

>

> Imagine that a deadly virus is sweeping the world, killing and maiming

> hundreds of thousands of children. Nothing seems able to stop it " until a

> doctor stands up at the American Medical Association and reports on 60 cases

> involving severely infected children, all of whom have been cured. Yet his

> work, subsequently reported in a peer-review journal, is ignored, leaving the

> virus to wreak havoc for decades.

>

> This isn't a docudrama about some futuristic plague " it's a true story about

> what happened in June 1949 when polio was at its peak. Dr Frederick Klenner, a

> clinical researcher from Reidsville, North Carolina, reported that a massive

> intravenous dose of Vitamin C " up to 20,000mg daily for three days (today's

> recommended daily allowance is 60mg) " had cured 60 of his patients. The

> findings were published in a medical journal, yet there was virtually no

> interest. Apart from a couple of minor trials, no attempt was made to find out

> if they had any scientific substance.