Editing 1822 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* [[United States Army]] [[surgeon]] [[William Beaumont]] pioneers human [[gastric]] [[endoscopy]] on [[Alexis St. Martin]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Beaumont|first=William|last2=Combe|first2=Andrew|authorlink2=Andrew Combe|title=Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion|publisher=MacLachlan & Stewart|location=Edinburgh|year=1838|edition=reprint|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H6F4_9joRkgC|isbn=0-486-69213-2|accessdate=2010-09-06}}</ref>
* Scottish surgeon [[John Henry Wishart]] gives the first description in England of [[neurofibromatosis type II]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wishart|first=J. H.|date=1822-07-01|title=Case of Tumours in the Skull, Dura Mater, and Brain|journal=Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal|volume=18|issue=72|pages=393–397|issn=0963-4932|pmc=5828850|pmid=30332030}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Ramsden|first=R. T.|last2=Birch|first2=J. M.|last3=Evans|first3=D. G. R.|date=1999-12-01|title=Paediatric presentation of type 2 neurofibromatosis|url= |journal=Archives of Disease in Childhood|language=en|volume=81|issue=6|pages=496–499|doi=10.1136/adc.81.6.496|issn=0003-9888|pmid=10569966|pmc=1718148}}</ref>