Key Takeaways:

• Surveys case reports and promotional claims about vitamin C’s wide‑ranging benefits—from immunity support to chronic disease prevention—echoing and amplifying emerging orthomolecular ideas.
• Reinforces the notion that a single nutrient, taken in higher doses than traditionally recommended, might help with many seemingly unrelated conditions.
• Adds popular momentum to the early 1970s vitamin‑C‑and‑immunity narrative, helping to prime the public for the more detailed arguments of Irwin Stone and Linus Pauling.