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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“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)
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—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)