Editing 1904 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* September 17 &ndash; An early study on the relationship between [[alcohol and cardiovascular disease]] is published in the United States.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cabot|first=Richard C.|authorlink=Richard Clarke Cabot|title=The relation of alcohol to arterioscleroisis|journal=[[Journal of the American Medical Association]]|year=1904|volume=43|issue=12|pages=774–775|doi=10.1001/jama.1904.92500120002a|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1447273|accessdate=2019-10-04}}</ref>
* [[Epinephrine]] first artificially synthesized by [[Friedrich Stolz]].
* [[Antoni Leśniowski]] presents to a meeting of the Warsaw Medical Society a surgical specimen of an inflammatory tumour of the [[terminal ileum]] with a fistula to the ascending colon, consistent with what will later become known as [[Crohn's disease]].<ref>Reported by him in ''Pamiętnik Towarzystwa Lekarskiego Warszawskiego''. {{cite journal|first=W. |last=Bartnik |date=December 2003 |title=Inflammatory bowel disease – Polish contribution |journal=Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology |volume=54 |issue=S3 |pages=205–210 |publisher=Polish Physiological Society |location=Kraków |pmid=15075474 |url=http://www.jpp.krakow.pl/journal/archive/1203_s3/articles/14_article.html |accessdate=2008-03-28 }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>