Editing 1832 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* February 12 – In [[England]], a [[second cholera pandemic]] begins to spread, starting from the [[East End of London]]. It is declared officially over in early May but deaths continue. It will claim at least 3000 victims.<!-- according to 1832 article --> In [[Liverpool]], [[Kitty Wilkinson]] becomes the "Saint of the Slums"<ref>{{cite web|title='Slum Saint' honoured with statue|date=4 February 2010|work=[[BBC News]]|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8499533.stm| accessdate=9 April 2011 <!--DASHBot-->}}</ref> by promoting hygiene.<ref>{{citation|title=Memoir of Kitty Wilkinson of Liverpool, 1786-1860|first=Herbert R.|last=Rathbone|publisher=H. Young & Sons|year=1927}}</ref>
* July 19 – [[Anatomy Act 1832|Anatomy Act]] in the [[United Kingdom]] provides for licensing and inspection of [[anatomist]]s, and for unclaimed bodies from public institutions to be available for their dissection.
* [[Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet|Dr James Kay]] publishes ''[[The moral and physical condition of the working-class employed in the cotton manufacture in Manchester]]''.
* [[Thomas Hodgkin]] first describes abnormalities in the [[lymph system]] later known as [[Hodgkin's lymphoma]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hellman|first=S.|editor=Hoppe, R. T.|editor2=Mauch, P. T.|editor3=Armitage, J. O.|editor4=Diehl, V.|editor5=Weiss, L. M.|title=Hodgkin Lymphoma|chapter=Brief Consideration of Thomas Hodgkin and His Times|publisher=Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins|location=Philadelphia|year=2007|edition=2nd|pages=3–6|isbn=978-0-7817-6422-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=On some morbid experiences of the absorbent glands and spleen|last=Hodgkin|first=T.|journal=Medico-Chirurgical Transactions|location=London|volume=17|pages=69–97|year=1832}}</ref>