“…A number of authors have suggested that vitamin C may be beneficial in patients with tuberculosis [1,3,[75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84] and for preventing and treating viral hepatitis [1,3,64,65,71,[85][86][87][88][89][90][91], With all the evidence indicating that vitamin C has nonspecific effects on the immune system and on various infections , it seems clear that these old reports should not be disregarded without further carefully designed trials. Vitamin C has been suggested as having beneficial effects on still further infections, but they are not commented on here [1-3, 7, 64,65,92-98].…”