Editing 1868 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* [[Jean-Martin Charcot]] describes and names [[multiple sclerosis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/19.html|title=Jean-Martin Charcot|work=[[Who Named It?|Whonamedit?]]|last=Enerson|first=Ole Daniel|accessdate=2011-04-11| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110514000108/http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/19.html| archivedate= 14 May 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Charcot, J.-M.|title= Histologie de la sclerose en plaques|journal=Gazette des Hopitaux|location=Paris|year=1868|volume=41|pages= 554–55}}</ref>
* [[Adolph Kussmaul]] performs the first [[esophagogastroduodenoscopy]] on a living human.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Killian|first1=Gustvan|title=The history of bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy|journal=The Laryngoscope|volume=21|pages=891–7|year=1911|doi=10.1288/00005537-191109000-00001|issue=9|s2cid=73388145|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1448736}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Modlin|first1=Irvin M.|last2=Kidd|first2=Mark|last3=Lye|first3=Kevin D.|title=From the Lumen to the Laparoscope|url=http://archsurg.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/139/10/1110|journal=[[Archives of Surgery]]|volume=139|issue=10|pages=1110–26|year=2004|pmid=15492154|doi=10.1001/archsurg.139.10.1110|accessdate=2011-10-17|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Elewaut|first1=A.|last2=Cremer|first2=M.|chapter=The History of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy — The European Perspective|editor1-last=Classen|editor1-first=Meinhard|editor2-last=Tytgat|editor2-first=Guido N.J.|editor3-last=Lightdale|editor3-first=Charles J.|title=Gastroenterological endoscopy|publisher=Thieme|location=Stuttgart|year=2002|page=17|isbn=978-1-58890-013-5|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4X5c7NVo-gkC&q=%22The%20History%20of%20Gastrointestinal%20Endoscopy%E2%80%94The%20European%20Perspective%22.&pg=PA17|accessdate=2010-09-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=F.|last=Vilardell|title=Digestive endoscopy in the second millennium: from the Lichtleiter to echoendoscopy|chapter=Rigid gastroscopes|publisher=Thieme|location=Stuttgart|year=2006|pages=32–5|isbn=978-3-13-139671-6|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bu1l1yS156oC&dq=%22Rigid+gastroscopes%22.+Digestive+endoscopy+in+the+second+millenium:+from+the+lichtleiter+to+echoendoscopy.&pg=PT71|accessdate=2010-09-06}}</ref>