Medicine
- Frederick Banting and Charles Best co-discover insulin.
- Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt first describes some of the symptoms of what will become known as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
- Hydrocodone, a narcotic analgesic closely related to codeine, is first synthesized in Germany by Carl Mannich and Helene Löwenheim.
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Confucius.
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Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
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