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IN a recent issue of NATURE1 there appeared a criticism by Prof. W. E. Curtis, Dr. F. Dickens and Mr. S. F. Evans of this topic. These authors mention experiments on tumour metabolism in vitro and state that the results claimed by Dr. Reiter2 are due to heat, adequate precautions against this not having been taken by him. One of us had already come to the same conclusion and published3 his results on the growth of rat tumours in vivo. Furthermore, in a subsequent paper4 he had shown that there is no sudden change in dielectric constant of tumour tissue at 3.4 m. as might be expected if Dr. Reiter's observations were correct.
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HILL, L., TAYLOR, H. The Specific Action of Ultra Short Wireless Waves. Nature 138, 591 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138591a0
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