Editing 1883 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* German psychiatrist [[Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum]] identifies a disorder characterized by recurring mood cycles which he and his student [[Ewald Hecker]] name [[cyclothymia]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Baethge|first1=C.|last2=Salvatore|first2=P.|last3=Baldessarini|first3=R. J.|title=Cyclothymia, a circular mood disorder|journal=History of Psychiatry|date=September 2003|volume=14|issue=55 Pt 3|pages=377–390|pmid=14621693|doi=10.1177/0957154X030143008|s2cid=145076032}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Koukopoulos|first1=A.|title=Ewald Hecker's description of cyclothymia as a cyclical mood disorder: its relevance to the modern concept of bipolar II|journal=Journal of Affective Disorders|date=January 2003|volume=73|issue=1–2|pages=199–205|pmid=12507752|doi=10.1016/S0165-0327(02)00326-9}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Clouston (psychiatrist)|Thomas Clouston]] publishes ''Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases''.
* [[Emil Kraepelin]] publishes ''Compendium der Psychiatrie''.
* ''[[Journal of the American Medical Association]]'' first published under this title.