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Europe PMC (2026-10-03)

Site: Europe PMC, the literature database for biomedical and life-sciences papers (covers Biochem. J., BMJ and others back to the 1930s). Searched through its REST API: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search Result: negative (a name collision ruled out; no biomedical publication by E. E. W. Kassner or Ternion found).

Why this site

The Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus (Jul-Dec 1936) and the Annual Review of Biochemistry 1937 index list an "E. W. Kassner" next to ultrashort-wave entries [web: https://archive.org/details/sim_quarterly-cumulative-index-medicus_july-december-1936_20_cumulative-index]. The question was whether Kassner, then living in London, had published biological work.

Queries tried

  • AUTH:"Kassner EW" (8 results)
  • AUTH:"Kassner" AND PUB_YEAR:[1930 TO 1950] (7 results)
  • Author and affiliation record of PMID 16746213 and 13053433

Findings

  • "E. W. Kassner" is a co-author with K. H. Coward of the College of the Pharmaceutical Society, London, on vitamin and calcium assays: "The determination of vitamin C by means of its influence on the body weight of guinea-pigs", Biochem. J. 30:1719-1727 (1936); vitamin D (1940, 1941); calcium of milk (BMJ 1938, 1943); with H. M. Bruce (1943); and assays of Artemisia (J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 1953, 1956) [web: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/16746213 ; https://europepmc.org/article/MED/13053433].
  • This is a pharmacologist active in London from 1936 to 1956. That person stayed in Britain while E. E. W. Kassner was in Zürich (1943) and Valais (about 1951), and their subject has no connection to ultrashort waves. The Index Medicus line is an index layout coincidence ("ultrashort waves" sits next to a guinea-pig weight entry). Conclusion: a different person. No paper by E. E. W. Kassner or by Ternion appears.
  • Nothing found for "Ternion" in any biomedical paper. This query was not run separately and should be next time.

How this bears on the claims

  • Claim 3 ("profound effects in men and animals"): no published biological work by Kassner exists in this index. The source gap stands.
  • It prevents a future false lead: do not cite Coward and Kassner as Kassner's biological work.

Next visit

Search the full text for "Ternion", "Kassner" ultrakurz, "Kassner" Kurzwellen and Dipol Arbon, and the German Strahlentherapie and Klinische Wochenschrift indexes (1931-1938) for ultrashort-wave therapy citing Kassner's applicator.