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...John L. Coulehan, head of the research team at Fort Defiance Hospital in Fort Defiance, Ariz., said yesterday that he was not prepared to recommend that people regularly take Vitamin C to avoid colds because doctors "just don't know how it works...
However, Coulehan said he would not dissuade anyone who was set on taking several grams of the vitamin every day. "It's harmless and may do a lot of good, especially for people who frequently get colds," he said...
...pharmacist at Chester A. Baker, Inc., in Holyoke Center said yesterday that there are no governmental restrictions on the purchase of Vitamin C. A bottle of 100 500-mg. pills sold...
...Arizona research was a so-called "double blind" study on over 600 school children. The doctors gave half the students daily doses of one to two grams of Vitamin C and the other half placebos--tablets that looked and tasted like the vitamins but contained no active ingredtents...
...doctors said the project was designed to test the hypothesis that Vitamin C could greatly increase a person's resistance to respiratory illness, a theory Nobel laureate Linus C. Pauling popularized...