2026-10-04 Europe PMC / PubMed Central (BMJ archive)

Queries

• Europe PMC REST API (curl): AUTH:"Kilner WJ" OR AUTH:"Kilner W" OR ("human atmosphere" AND PUB_YEAR:[1911 TO 1921]) OR (kilner AND aura) (18 hits, mostly modern and irrelevant).
• Core record of PMC2344221.

Found

• "Reviews", Br Med J 1912, issue 2662 (6 January 1912), pp.20-22, PMC2344221. This is the BMJ review of The Human Atmosphere that Wikipedia cites. Full text links: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2344221 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2344221/pdf/
• Also listed (not checked): "Supplement 410", Br Med J 1912 (PMC2344770); "Reports of Societies", Br Med J 1893 (PMC2422466) and "Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the BMA", 1893 (PMC2422189); "Association Intelligence", 1898 (PMC2433863). These may hold Kilner's electrotherapy work of the St Thomas's years (priority 1, background).

Blocked

• pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov in Chrome: reCAPTCHA verification page. Recorded as blocked (CAPTCHA); not attempted further.
• europepmc.org PDF render (?pdf=render and backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi): curl received an HTML challenge page instead of a PDF; in Chrome the PDF viewer did not allow a screenshot ("Permission denied for this action on this domain").
• Next run: try the BMJ site (bmj.com archive, doi of the 1912 review), JSTOR's free early-journal content, or archive.org BMJ volumes for 1912.

Bears on: whether the BMJ reviewers ran their own trial (Wikipedia says they did, with negative results). That is a specific factual claim about a test, and the review must be read before any reviewer relies on it.