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==Medicine== * October 31 – Dr. [[Frederick Banting]] of Ontario first records his insight on how to isolate [[insulin]] for the treatment of [[diabetes]];{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}} working with [[Charles Best (medical scientist)|Charles Best]], the first successful human trial of insulin will occur 15 months later. * [[Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt]] first describes some of the symptoms of what will become known as [[Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease]]. * [[Hydrocodone]], a [[narcotic]] [[analgesic]] closely related to [[codeine]], is first synthesized in Germany by [[Carl Mannich]] and Helene Löwenheim.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Mannich|first1=C.|last2=Löwenheim|first2=Helene|title=Ueber zwei neue Reduktionsprodukte des Kodeins|journal=[[Archiv der Pharmazie]]|year=1920|volume=258|issue=2–4|pages=295–316|doi=10.1002/ardp.19202580218|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1424591}}</ref> * [[Black Cross Nurses]] founded in the United States.
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