Letter: Ascorbic acid and the common cold.
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Ascorbic Acid and the Common Cold
ASCORBIC ACID AND THE COMMON COLD SIR,—Most of the earlier reports 1,2 claiming that supplementary ascorbic acid has little or no effect on the incidence and severity of the common cold have been based on dosages of the order of 200 mg. per day. Pauling 3 lately publicised other work which indicated that higher intakes of ascorbic acid might be beneficial in cold prevention. We wish to report a...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.4.5885.166-a