Editing 1897 in science (section)

==Physiology, medicine and pharmacology==
* May 6 – [[John Jacob Abel]] announces the successful isolation of [[epinephrine]] ([[adrenaline]]) in a paper read before the Association of American Physicians.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Abel |first=John J. |last2=Crawford |first2=Albert C. |date=July 1897 |title=On the Blood-Pressure-Raising Constituent of the Suprarenal Capsule |url=https://archive.org/details/onbloodpressure00crawgoog |journal=Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital |page=151 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
* August 10 – [[History of aspirin]]: At the German [[Bayer]] chemical and dyestuffs company, pharmacist [[Felix Hoffmann]] successfully synthesizes [[acetylsalicylic acid]], a synthetically altered version of [[salicin]], as a less-irritating replacement for standard common salicylate medicines, after isolating a compound from a plant of the ''[[Spiraea]]'' family; the company markets it under the brand name '[[Aspirin]]'.<ref>{{cite book|first=Diarmuid|last=Jeffreys|title=Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug|url=https://archive.org/details/aspirinremarkabl00jeff|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2005|page=[https://archive.org/details/aspirinremarkabl00jeff/page/70 70]}}</ref>
* August 20 – [[Ronald Ross]] discovers the [[malaria]] ''[[Plasmodium]]'' in an ''[[Anopheles]]'' [[mosquito]], demonstrating the [[Transmission (medicine)|transmission]] mechanism for the disease.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/ross.html|title=Ross and the Discovery that Mosquitoes Transmit Malaria Parasites|publisher=[[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]|year=2010|accessdate=2011-06-14}}</ref>
* [[Danes|Danish]] [[veterinarian]] [[Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang|Bernhard Bang]] isolates ''[[Brucella abortus]]'' as the agent of [[Brucellosis]].
* [[Luther Emmett Holt|L. Emmett Holt]] publishes the standard textbook ''The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood'' in [[New York City|New York]].
* [[Charles Sherrington]] introduces the term '[[synapse]]'.