Medicine
- February 12 - Reserve Constable Albert Alexander, a patient at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, becomes the first person treated with penicillin intravenously, by Howard Florey’s team. He reacts positively but there is insufficient supply of the drug to reverse his terminal infection. A successful treatment is achieved during May.
- Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics is first published in New York.
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—Chinese proverb.
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