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About thirty years ago, I started administering large doses of vitamin C to post-operative patients. Its primary aim was to improve the healing of surgical wounds. During that time, I recognized that vitamin C supplemented patients very rarely suffered from post-operative and post-transfused hepatitis. This finding is from observations made on many post-operative patients especially in Kyushu district.
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Morishige, F., Nakamura, T., Nakamura, N., Morishige, N. (1986). The Role of Vitamin C in Tumor Therapy (Human). In: Meyskens, F.L., Prasad, K.N. (eds) Vitamins and Cancer. Experimental Biology and Medicine, Vol. 10, vol 10. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5006-7_26
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