Editing 1910 in science (section)

==Physiology and medicine==
* February 3 – The first [[pyloromyotomy]], a surgery to correct the congenital narrowing (in infants) of the path between the stomach and the intestines ([[pyloric stenosis]]) is performed in Edinburgh by Sir [[Harold Stiles]]; however, the procedure is named for Dr. Wilhelm Ramstedt, who performs the surgery in 1911.<ref>{{cite book|first=N. M. A.|last=Bax|display-authors=etal|title=Endoscopic Surgery in Infants and Children|publisher=Springer|year=2008|page=281}}</ref> 
* March – [[International Psychoanalytical Association]] established.
* March 20 – The first clinic for treatment of [[occupational disease]]s is opened in [[Milan]] (Italy). (The first in the United States will be established in 1915.)<ref>{{cite book|last=Fielding|first=H. Garrison|title=An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology, Suggestions for Study and Bibliographic Data|publisher=W.B. Saunders Co.|year=1917|page=775}}</ref>
* May 18 – At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of the [[Feeble-minded|Feeble-Minded]], [[Henry H. Goddard]] introduces a system for classifying individuals with mental retardation based on [[intelligence quotient]] (IQ): [[Moron (psychology)|moron]] for those with an IQ of 51–70, [[Mental retardation#Traditional terms|imbecile]] for those with an IQ of 26–50, and [[Idiot (usage)|idiot]] for those with an IQ of 0-25.
* July 15 – Publication of the eighth edition of [[Emil Kraepelin]]'s ''Psychiatrie: Ein Lehrbuch für Studierende und Arzte'', naming [[Alzheimer's disease]] as a variety of [[dementia]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Berchtold|first1=N. C.|last2=Cotman|first2=C. W.|title=Evolution in the conceptualization of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: Greco-Roman period to the 1960s|journal=Neurobiology of Aging|volume=19|issue=3|pages=173–89|year=1998|pmid=9661992|doi=10.1016/S0197-4580(98)00052-9|s2cid=24808582}}</ref>
* October (approx.) – Approximate date of origin of [[Manchurian plague]], a form of [[pneumonic plague]] which by December is spreading through northeastern China, killing more than 40,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.sina.com.cn/c/sd/2011-01-14/130221815935.shtml |title=Recalling the 1910 Harbin Plague |work=Sina.com |language=zh}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=Mark |last=Gamsa |title=The Epidemic of Pneumonic Plague in Manchuria 1910–1911 |journal=[[Past & Present (journal)|Past & Present]] | date=February 2006 |volume=190 |issue=1 |pages=147–183 |doi=10.1093/pastj/gtj001}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Goh, L. G. |author2=Ho, T. M. |author3=Phua, K. H. |title=Wisdom and Western Science: The Work of Dr Wu Lien-Teh |journal=[[Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health]] | doi=10.1177/101053958700100123 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=99–109 |series=Historical Milestones |date=January 1987 |pmid=3330665|s2cid=33328996 }}</ref>
* [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]] discovers that [[gene]]s are located on [[chromosome]]s.
* [[Chicago]] [[cardiologist]] [[James B. Herrick]] makes the first published identification of [[Sickle-cell disease|sickle cells]] in the blood of a patient with [[anemia]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Herrick|first=James B.|title=Peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped red blood corpuscles in a case of severe anemia|journal=[[Archives of Internal Medicine]]|volume=6|issue=5|pages=517–521|date=November 1910|doi=10.1001/archinte.1910.00050330050003|pmc=<!--none-->}}; Reprinted in {{cite journal|pmc=2588723 | pmid=11501714 | volume=74 | title=Peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped red blood corpuscles in a case of severe anemia. 1910 | year=2001 | journal=Yale J Biol Med | pages=179–84 | last1 = Herrick | first1 = JB| issue=3 }}</ref>
* [[Platelet]]s are first named by [[James Homer Wright]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Wright|first=J. H.|title=The histogenesis of blood platelets|journal=Journal of Morphology|year=1910|volume=21|issue=2|pages=263–78|doi=10.1002/jmor.1050210204|hdl=2027/hvd.32044107223588|s2cid=84877594|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/imgsrv/download/pdf?id=hvd.32044107223588;orient=0;size=100;seq=3;attachment=0|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
* [[Francis Peyton Rous|Peyton Rous]] demonstrates that a malignant tumor can be transmitted by a virus (which becomes known as the [[Rous sarcoma virus]], a [[retrovirus]]).<ref>{{cite journal|first=Peyton|last=Rous|title=A Transmissible Avian Neoplasm (Sarcoma of the Common Fowl)|journal=[[Journal of Experimental Medicine]]|volume=12|issue=5|pages=696–705|date=1910-09-01|pmc=2124810|pmid=19867354|doi=10.1084/jem.12.5.696|url=http://digitalcommons.ohsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1156&context=hca-cac|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910230342/http://digitalcommons.ohsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1156&context=hca-cac|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 10, 2015|access-date=2018-11-04}}{{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966 – Peyton Rous – Biography|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1966/rous.html|work=Nobelprize.org|accessdate=2011-10-14}}</ref>
* [[Hans Christian Jacobaeus]] of Sweden performs the first [[Thoracoscopy|thoracoscopic]] diagnosis with a [[cystoscope]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Hans Christian|last=Jacobaeus|year=1911|title=The Possibilities for Performing Cystoscopy in Examinations of Serous Cavities|journal=Münchner Medizinischen Wochenschrift}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Martin|last=Hatzinger|journal=Journal of Endourology|title=Hans Christian Jacobaeus: Inventor of Human Laparoscopy and Thoracoscopy|volume=20|issue=11|date=4 December 2006|doi=10.1089/end.2006.20.848|pmid=17144849|display-authors=etal|pages=848–850}}</ref>