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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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“No medicine in the world can do thee good;
In thee there is not half an hour’s life.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Chinese proverb.
Rhyme.
“Authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)