Editing 1918 in science (section)

==Physiology and medicine==
* January – [[1918 flu pandemic]]: "Spanish 'flu" ([[influenza]]) first observed in [[Haskell County, Kansas]].<ref name=Barry>{{cite book|author-link=John M. Barry|first=John M.|last=Barry|title=The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History|url=https://archive.org/details/greatinfluenzaep00barr|url-access=registration|location=New York|publisher=Penguin Books|year=2005|orig-year=2004}}</ref>
* March 26 – Dr. [[Marie Stopes]] publishes her influential book ''[[Married Love]]'' in the U.K., following it with ''Wise Parenthood'', a treatise on birth control.
* June–August – "[[1918 flu pandemic|Spanish 'flu]]" becomes [[pandemic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pasteur.fr/infosci/conf/CRC/Grippe_CRC.ppt |publisher=[[Institut Pasteur]] |title=La Grippe Espagnole de 1918 |access-date=3 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604144218/http://www.pasteur.fr/infosci/conf/CRC/Grippe_CRC.ppt |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* September 7 – [[John Brian Christopherson|J. B. Christopherson]] publishes his discovery that [[antimony potassium tartrate]] is an effective cure for [[bilharzia]].<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(01)02807-0|title=The Successful Use of Antimony in Bilharziosis|year=1918|last=Christopherson|first=J. B.|journal=[[The Lancet]]|volume=192|issue=4958|page=325|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1907214}}</ref>
* [[Hartog Jacob Hamburger]] describes the [[chloride shift]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hamburger|first=H. J.|title=Anionenwanderungen in serum und blut unter dem einfluss von CO<sub>2</sub>, Saure und Akali|journal=Biochemische Zeitschrift|year=1918|volume=86|pages=309–324}}</ref>