Editing 1908 in science (section)

==Physiology and medicine==
* April 27 – First Congress for Freudian Psychology, held in [[Salzburg]].
* [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[psychiatrist]] [[Eugen Bleuler]] introduces the term ''[[schizophrenia]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kuhn|first=R.|title=Eugen Bleuler's concepts of psychopathology|journal=History of Psychiatry|volume=15|issue=59 Pt 3|year=2004|pages=361–6|doi=10.1177/0957154X04044603|pmid=15386868|s2cid=5317716 }}</ref>
* [[Austrian American]] [[pathologist]] [[Leo Buerger]] gives the first accurate pathological description of ''[[Thromboangiitis obliterans]]'' ("Buerger's disease") at [[Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Buerger |first=Leo |title=Thrombo-angiitis obliterans: a study of the vascular lesions leading to presenile spontaneous gangrene |journal=The American Journal of the Medical Sciences |volume=136 |issue=4 |pages=567–80 |year=1908 |doi=10.1097/00000441-190810000-00011 |pmid=29015658 |pmc=5202473 }}</ref>
* [[Victor Horsley]] and R. Clarke invents the [[stereotactic method]].
* [[Margaret Reed Lewis]], working in Berlin, becomes probably the first person successfully to grow mammalian tissue ''in vitro''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Corner|first=George W.|author-link=George W. Corner|title=Warren Harmon Lewis, June 17, 1870 – July 3, 1964|journal=Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences|number=39|year=1967|pages=323–358|url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/lewis-warren-h.pdf}}</ref>