Irwin Stone. Picture courtesy of Oscar Falconi

The Healing Factor

Vitamin C Against Disease

By Irwin Stone

With forewords by Nobel Prizewinners

Dr. Linus Pauling

and

Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

• Intro and Part I
  • Chapter 1 - The Beginnings of Life
  • Chapter 2 - From Fishes to Mammals
  • Chapter 3 - Our Ancestral Primate
  • Chapter 4 - The Evolution of Man
  • Chapter 5 - From Prehistory to the Eighteenth Century
  • Chapter 6 - The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  • Chapter 7 - Finding the Elusive Molecule
  • Chapter 8 - The Genetic Approach
  • Chapter 9 - Some Effects of Ascorbic Acid
  • Chapter 10 - "Correcting" Nature
• Part II - Pathways to Research
  • Chapter 11 - Breaking the 'Vitamin' Barrier
  • Chapter 12 - The Common Cold
  • Chapter 13 - Viral Infection
  • Chapter 14 - Bacterial Infection
  • Chapter 15 - Cancer
  • Chapter 16 - The Heart, Vascular System, and Strokes
  • Chapter 17 - Arthritis and Rheumatism
  • Chapter 18 - Aging
  • Chapter 19 - Hay Fever
  • Chapter 20 - Eye Conditions
  • Chapter 21 - Ulcers
  • Chapter 22 - Kidneys and Bladder
  • Chapter 23 - Diabetes and Hypoglycemia
  • Chapter 24 - Chemical Stresses - Poisons, Toxins
  • Chapter 25 - Physical Stresses
  • Chapter 26 - Pollution and Smoker's Scurvy
  • Chapter 27 - Wounds, Bone Fractures, and Shock
  • Chapter 28 - Pregnancy
  • Chapter 29 - Mental Diseases
  • Chapter 30 - The Future
• References

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Copyright © 1972 by Irwin Stone

Many thanks to Irwin's son Steve Stone for granting the Foundation permission to electronically publish this book!

Additional thanks to John Jenkins for correcting errors and scanning all the figures, diagrams and tables.