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Typed letter from Linus Pauling to Dr. John Lattimer about receiving the Lattimer award and the value of vitamin C and having controlled trials to see its effectiveness in fighting Cancer.
The letter is dated 18 May 1981 and signed by Paulding.
In Full: May 18, 1981 To Professor J. K. Lattimer, It was surely fine to be with you in Boston. I am very pleased to have been able to give the lecture that has been set up in your honor, and also to have received the John K. Lattimer Award and Medal. It In fine that you are thinking of carrying out a controlled trial on ascorbate in relation to bladder, prostate, or kidney cancers. I feel that it is essential that some controlled trials be carried out by well-known and respected investigators. In order to convince the medical profession that vitamin C has value against cancer Cordially “Linus Paulding”
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