1932 in Science - Medicine

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