2026-10-08 PubMed (NCBI E-utilities)
Queries (by script, esearch/esummary/efetch):
- Lakhovsky -> 2 hits
- Lakhovsky OR Lakhowsky OR Lakhovski -> the same 2 hits
- multiple wave oscillator (unquoted) -> 656 hits, unrelated (word matches); "multiple wave oscillator" (quoted) -> same unrelated list, none on the MWO
- Roffo AH[Author] cholesterol, Roffo[Author] AND 1930:1942[dp], Metalnikov S[Author] AND 1930:1942[dp] -> 0 (PubMed's pre-1945 coverage is thin; this is not evidence that the papers do not exist)
Hits [web]
- Farrell K., "Hyperthermia for malignant disease - a history of medicine note - the work of Georges Lakhovsky", Adv Exp Med Biol 1982;157:9-10, doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-4388-2_2, PMID 6760702. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6760702/ No abstract in PubMed; the two-page note was not read. Its place in a hyperthermia volume shows that the hyperthermia field counts Lakhovsky in its history.
- Reid B.L., Med Hypotheses 1989;29(3):199-216, PMID 2779478 (Queen Elizabeth II Research Institute for Mothers and Infants, University of Sydney). Abstract mentions "Lakhovsky's non-linear oscillators, Coley's bacterial digests and interferon" as regimes that might work by making the "filament subtending new growth" unstable. A related theory by others (priority 3), stated as a hypothesis with no experiment on the MWO.
Bearing
- No controlled modern trial of the MWO or the oscillating circuit was found in PubMed under these queries. This is a search result, not a finding that no test exists.
- Farrell 1982 is the one mainstream historical note; its text would show how the hyperthermia field read his work.