Medicine
- January 5 - The pathology of Cushing's syndrome is first described by Harvey Cushing.
- Jewish-American gastroenterologist Burrill Bernard Crohn and colleagues describe a series of patients with "regional ileitis", inflammation of the terminal ileum, the area most commonly affected by the condition which will become known as Crohn's disease.
- Rudolph Schindler introduces the first semi-flexible gastroscope, in Germany.
- Commencement of the 40-year Tuskegee syphilis experiment by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in poor African-American sharecroppers in Alabama without their informed consent.
- First published use of the term Medical genetics, in an article by Madge Macklin.
- Gerhard Domagk develops a chemotherapeutic cure for streptococcus
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“No medicine in the world can do thee good;
In thee there is not half an hour’s life.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“After you eat always take a walk, and you’ll never have to go to a medicine shop.”
—Chinese proverb.
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