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Lot #103
Linus Pauling Autograph Manuscript Signed: "Why you need Vitamin C to fight your cold"

"Why you need Vitamin C to fight your cold"

Estimate: $2000+

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"Why you need Vitamin C to fight your cold"

American chemist (1901–1994) who holds the unique distinction of winning Nobel Prizes in both the Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962) categories. Amazing handwritten manuscript by Linus Pauling entitled "Why you need Vitamin C to fight your cold," 15 pages, 8.5 x 11, no date, signed at the head, "Linus Pauling." The manuscript reads, in part: "Vitamin C is one of the most important of our foods. A person who does not get any vitamin C develops scurvy. His body falls apart, and he dies. The reason that his body falls apart is that vitamin C is required for the synthesis of connective tissue, the collagen fibers that hold the bones, skin, and other parts of the body together. Vitamin C is also involved in many other physiological reactions, including the various mechanisms that protect us against disease. One of the diseases against which it provides some protection is the common cold. The common cold is an inflammation of the upper respiratory tract caused by infection with any one of a large number of viruses. This infection alters the physiology of the mucous membrane of the nose, the paranasal sinuses, and the throat. The symptoms are runny nose, sneezing, roughness or soreness of the throat, fullness and irritation of the chest, headache, general malaise, chills, and sometimes fever." In fine condition.

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