Sepsis -- your grandparents called it blood poisoning, and it's a nasty and often fatal condition. Treatment is arduous and often fails.
UNLESS you are treated with high-dose intravenous vitamin C (20,000 mg - 100,000 mg daily) or, many reports suggest, with 6 or so grams of lipospheric or liposomal vitamin C per day, orally.
ThIs link covers a bit of history on the use of vitamin C to cure scurvy and viruses, and contains two YouTube videos -- only one of which (the second one) is still available. The vid is well worth watching; it's about a family that saved their husband / father's life by fighting to get a hospital to give high-dose intravenous C to the patient, which was finally begun at the point where the hospital was planning to turn off his life support because he was at death's door and couldn't POSSIBLY get well. (The man had swine flu and leukemia, not sepsis).
Direct YouTube link for the embedded video: Vitamin C: the miracle Swine Flu cure
Speaking as someone who gets kidney stones, this bears mentioning: https://www.healthline.com/health/kidney-disease/vitamin-c-and-kidney-health
I have directly correlated Vitamin C supplementation with the occurrence of stones. I wouldn't wish stones on my worst enemy!
I think they propagate these stories to scare folks away from Vitamin C therapy. I have been taking very high doses off and on over the last 15 years with no issues - I know - I'm N of 1....but still from my research into this the kidney stone theory is false. JMHO.
Also my husband and brother have been taking very high doses over many years (10+ each) with zero issues. And when I say high, I mean on average 5 GRAMS a day. I'll take about 5 grams a day no problem...not every day lately, but when feeling run down. I find a gram or gram and a half a day is a good maintenance dose. I only take the powder - no fillers. Same with husband and brother. No rosehips or that junk.
There was a period where I was taking about 10 - 15 grams a day over about 2 months - I had HPV and guess what - next test, ZERO HPV. Gone forever. That was over 10 years ago, never came back.
I know - N of 1. Just my experience with it.
Excellent- I too have been taking high doses daily for years. Works like a charm. Even a lot of athletes take 5-10,000 mgs a day so they recover much faster and don’t get as sore.
It doesn't affect everyone the same way -- only those with a predisposition.