Editing 1932 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* January 5 – The [[pathology]] of [[Cushing's syndrome]] is first described by [[Harvey Cushing]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Harvey|last=Cushing|title=The basophil adenomas of the pituitary body and their clinical manifestations (pituitary basophilism)|journal=[[Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital]]|volume=50|pages=137–95|year=1932}} Reprinted in {{cite journal|last1=Cushing|first1=Harvey|title=The basophil adenomas of the pituitary body|journal=Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|date=April 1969|volume=44|issue=4|pages=180–1|pmid=19310569|pmc=2387613}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Dr. Cushing Dead; Brain Surgeon, 70. A Pioneer Who Won Fame as Founder of New School of Neuro-Surgery. Discovered Malady Affecting Pituitary Gland. Was Noted Teacher and Author|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/10/08/archives/drcushing-dead-brain-surgeon-70-a-pioneer-who-won-fame-as-founder.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=8 October 1939|accessdate=2010-03-21}}</ref>
* [[Americans|American]] [[gastroenterology|gastroenterologist]] [[Burrill Bernard Crohn]] and colleagues describe a series of patients with "regional ileitis", inflammation of the [[terminal ileum]], the area most commonly affected by the condition which will become known as [[Crohn's disease]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Crohn|first1=B. B.|last2=Ginzburg|first2=L.|last3=Oppenheimer|first3=G. D.|title=Regional ileitis: a pathologic and clinical entity, 1932|journal=Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine|volume=67|issue=3|pages=263–8|year=2000|pmid=10828911}}</ref>
* [[Grace Medes]] discovers tyrosinosis, the [[metabolic disorder]] later known as [[Type I tyrosinemia]].
* Swedish neurosurgeon [[Herbert Olivecrona]] performs the first surgical excision of an intracranial [[arteriovenous malformation]].
* [[Rudolf Schindler (doctor)|Rudolph Schindler]] introduces the first semi-flexible [[gastroscope]], in Germany.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Schäfer|first1=P. K.|last2=Sauerbruch|first2=T.|title=Rudolf Schindler (1888–1968) – 'Vater' der Gastroskopie|journal=Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie|volume=42|issue=6|pages=550–6|year=2004|doi=10.1055/s-2004-813178|pmid=15190453}}{{Dead link|date=February 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Commencement of the 40-year [[Tuskegee syphilis experiment]] by the [[U.S. Public Health Service]] to study the natural progression of untreated [[syphilis]] in poor [[African-American]] [[sharecroppers]] in [[Alabama]] without their [[Medical ethics#Informed consent|informed consent]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm|title=The Tuskegee Timeline|publisher=[[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]|date=2011-06-15|accessdate=2011-09-30}}</ref>
* First published use of the term ''[[Medical genetics]]'', in an article by [[Madge Macklin|Madge Thurlow Macklin]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Peter S.|last=Harper|title=A Short History of Medical Genetics|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0-19-518750-2|page=281}}</ref>
* [[Gerhard Domagk]] develops a chemotherapeutic cure for [[streptococcus]]