Medicine
- February - Great Plague of 1738, an outbreak of bubonic plague, begins to spread from Banat across central Europe.
- Establishment of The Mineral Water Hospital in Bath, England.
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“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)
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