It's probably not the same thing you read, but in Adele Davis' "Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit" (1954) , she talks about a Doctor Fred Klenner (chief of staff at a hospital in NC) who was experimenting with large doses of Vitamin C.

He treated an 18-month old girl who had polio, who had become paralyzed from a convulsion. He gave her two 6000mg injections of vitamin C and she recovered. The doctor was convinced that Vitamin C was a wonder drug. He wasn't the only one.