Editing 1916 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* 1 January – The British [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] carries out the first successful [[blood transfusion]] using blood that had been stored and cooled.
* 16 October – [[Margaret Sanger]] opens a [[family planning]] and [[birth control]] clinic in [[Brownsville, Brooklyn]], the first of its kind in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|title=The selected papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume '''1''': The Woman Rebel, 1900–1928|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2003|page=199}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Jean H.|year=2011|title=Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion|publisher=Macmillan|page=115}}</ref> Nine days later, she is arrested for breaking a [[New York (state)|New York]] state law prohibiting distribution of [[contraceptive]]s.<ref>{{cite book|last=Engelman|first=Peter C.|year=2011|title=A History of the Birth Control Movement in America|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-36509-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofbirthco0000enge/page/100 101]}}{{void|comment|Fabrickator|intentionally specifying page as 100, initially book opens in 2-page mode, user may switch to 1-page mode to view more easily but must specify 2-page mode to be able to switch to 2-page mode and have visibility to page 101 without being logged in}}</ref> This same year, she publishes ''What Every Girl Should Know'', providing information about such topics as [[menstruation]] and sexuality in adolescents.
* [[Georges Guillain]], [[Jean Alexandre Barré]] and [[André Strohl]] diagnose two soldiers with [[Guillain–Barré syndrome]] of the [[peripheral nervous system]] and describe the key diagnostic abnormality of increased [[spinal fluid]] protein production, but normal cell count.<ref>{{WhoNamedIt2|synd|1766|Guillain–Barré–Strohl syndrome}} and {{WhoNamedIt|synd|1508|Miller Fisher's syndrome}}</ref>
* [[Eugen Bleuler]] publishes his ''Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie'', including a definition of complexes arising from diffuse [[brain damage]], known as "Bleuler's psycho syndrome".<ref>{{cite web|title=Eugen Bleuler|url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1294.html|work=[[Who Named It?|Whonamedit?]]|accessdate=2011-11-01}}</ref>
* [[Medication]] [[Suramin]] against [[African trypanosomiasis|African sleeping sickness]] and [[river blindness]] is first made by German company [[Bayer AG]].