2026-10-08 Wiley Online Library: Roussakow 2013, The History of Hyperthermia Rise and Decline

Found through Google: "cancer expérimental des plantes" Lakhovsky Magrou Comptes rendus 91 and Schereschewsky 1926 "high frequency" OR "ultra-high-frequency" mouse sarcoma "Public Health Reports". Read in Chrome (selected paragraphs only). URL [web]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2013/428027 (S. Roussakow, Conference Papers in Science / Conference Papers in Medicine, 2013, open access).

Stake: Roussakow argues for non-thermal electromagnetic effects in oncology (the modulated electro-hyperthermia line); I recall an Oncotherm link [memory, low confidence; not checked]. So this is a historian with a position in the thermal vs non-thermal debate.

Passages [web]

• "Gosset et al. (France, 1924) exposed different plant cells to 150 MHz RF field and displayed cell death after initial growth acceleration; the effect was mainly or entirely not temperature dependent [58]." Reference 58 = Gosset, Gutmann, Lakhovsky, Magrou, CR Soc Biol 91, 626-628, 1924.
• "In 1926, an American surgeon Schereschewsky reported the lethal effect of 8.3-135 MHz RF field (with maximum at 20-80 MHz) on mice without substantial heating [59]." In 1928 he "reported the destruction of tumor grafts in mice, once again without substantial heating [60]. At 67 MHz, there was 23% of complete remission ...". Ref 60: Schereschewsky J.W., "The action of currents of very high frequency upon tissue cells", Public Health Reports (1928, vol. 43).
• "Schereschewsky concluded that there is a special cell-destructive frequency range 20-80 MHz." His papers "had caused a strong 'thermal' opposition" (thermometry criticism; Christie and Loomis); "In 1933, Schereschewsky, being under a strong 'thermal' pressure, abandoned his ... nonthermal point of view and recognized the thermal essence" of the effect.
• Context: d'Arsonval tried to show non-thermal effects on bacteria and toxins (inconclusive); Nagelschmidt declared heating the only modality after 1910.

Bearing on the claims (no verdicts)

• Claim 3 (geranium tumours): places the 1924 note in the mainstream history of radio-frequency oncology, with an author who reads it as a non-thermal result.
• Related work (priority 3): Schereschewsky (US Public Health Service, later Harvard), 1926-1928, mouse tumour grafts destroyed by 8-135 MHz fields, the same band as Lakhovsky's 150 MHz oscillator; later re-read as heating by Schereschewsky himself (1933). The thermal vs non-thermal dispute is the decisive question for the 1924 result too, and Kotzareff's 40 W input figure is the only power number found so far.
• Primary to obtain: Public Health Reports 41 (1926) no. 37 p.1939 and 43 (1928); both are US government publications (CDC Stacks / JSTOR show them).