Medicine
- Edward Jenner publishes An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae.
- Charles Bell publishes A System of Dissection Explaining the Anatomy of the Human Body in collaboration with his brother John.
- John Dalton publishes "Extraordinary Facts Relating to the Vision of Colours", describing colour blindness for the first time.
- Philippe Pinel publishes Nosographie philosophique, ou méthode de l'analyse appliquée à la médecine, emphasising the importance of nosology (classification of diseases) to medicine. It goes through six editions in the next ten years.
- Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring publishes Tabula sceleti feminini in Frankfurt am Main, the first accurate representation of the female skeleton.
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“God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
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In thee there is not half an hour’s life.”
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