Publications by Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.

• Formal list of Publications (with some links)

• Quick Links to key articles:

• Letter to Editor, Medical Tribune, June 25, 1972, Clinical Trial of Vitamin C

• The Method of Determining Proper Doses of Vitamin C for the Treatment of Disease by Titrating to Bowel tolerance .

• Vitamin C, Titrating to Bowel Tolerance, Anascorbemia, and Acute Induced Scurvy. (The famous titration 1981 article listing dosages and disease)

• Vitamin C Function in AIDS, Medical Tribune, July 13, 1983

• Unpublished Paper on AIDS, 1992

• Statement on CFIDS.

• Allergies and the Normal Un-primed State of Antibodies

• The Nontoxic, Non-Rate Limited, Antioxidant Free Radical Scavenger

• The Three Faces of Vitamin C

• Unique Function of Vitamin C

• Vitamin C and AIDS

• Lancet article on AIDS

• Abstract in Free Radical Biology & Medicine on the implication of the extent of the increased tolerance to Ascorbic Acid with various diseases

• For MD's: How to Prepare Vitamin C for Intravenous injections.

• JAMA, letter to the editor, Vitamin E and Leg Cramps

• index1 of Section Titles in above articles

• Strongly Related:

  • Linus Pauling on Robert Fulton Cathcart, III, M.D,, The Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine Newsletter FALL 1978. (PDF format)

  • Symptomectomy With Vitamin C by B. J. Luberoff, Chemtech, February 1978 (PDF format)

  • Medical Tribune, Editorial by Arthur M. Sackler, M.D. on Adrenals and Ascorbate, Aspirin and Reye's Syndrome

  • List of Books and Magazines mentioning Robert F. Cathcart's work

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  Unpublished Papers by Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.

  • Rationale for Use of Massive Doses of Ascorbate in Disease

  • Vitamin C in High Dosages Provides Significant Pain Relief

  • Excerpts From Letters to Physicians

  • Hypothesis for the Cause and Treatment of Various Inflammatory Diseases. From talk given October 7, 2000 to the Lupus Foundation of Northern California at Stanford University Medical Center

  • Massive Doses of Ascorbate: A Paradigm Shift, From the Syllabus of the 15th International Conference on Human Functioning, September 22, 23, 24, 200, Wichita, Kansas

  • The Ascorbate Effect in Infectious and Autoimmune Diseases, From the Fourth World Conference on Nutritional Medicine, San Francisco, June 2004.

  Slides

  Robert Cathcart, M.D. spoke at the Health Trends 2000 Conference August 27-29th at Radisson-SAS-Scandinavia Hotel, Copenhagen arranged by the Danish Society of Orthomolecular Medicine on, "Vitamin C, The Premier Free Radical Scavenger."

     Slides of the above talk.

  Article by Robert F. Cathcart, M.D. as an Orthopaedic Surgeon.

• New Ideas in the Design and Function of the Austin Moore Prosthesis. Orthopaedic Review. Vol. II, No. 3, March 1973. (Give this link lots of time for download because it is in PDF format.)
  • This is the article that documents that the femoral head is not a sphere and that the out-of-round shape of the femoral head should be considered in the design of hemi-hip replacement endoprostheses to prevent idiopathic sinkage of the prosthesis head into the acetabulum.  The implications of increasing sphericity as one of the first steps in idiopathic degenerative arthritis of the hip is discussed.

   

• Pictures taken at dissections at Stanford Medical School by Cathcart during orthopaedic surgery residency in 1959 (PDF format)
  • These pictures demonstrate the normal femoral head as being out-of-round and the early degenerative hips as being more spherical than normal.  These dissections lead to the design of the more normally shaped hemi-hip replacement prosthesis, ("the Cathcart prosthesis"}, and the idea that a sphere is a pathologic shape.  Normal animal joints must not be surfaces of revolution.