Word: milligrams
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Pauling says, partly because the drug companies cannot make enough money out of it and partly because doctors generally prescribe doses just large enough to prevent scurvy. In a paperback, Vitamin C and the Common Cold (W.H. Freeman & Co.; $1.95), Pauling recommends a daily 250-to-10,000 milligrams to keep colds from being caught, plus a crash dosage of 500-milligram tablets to kill them once they're started. Initial response to his finding was a run on ascorbic acid and much medical skepticism about Pauling's paucity of clinical data...