Medicine
- Xavier Bichat publishes his Anatomie générale.
- Philippe Pinel publishes Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale; ou la manie, presenting his enlightened humane psychological approach to the management of psychiatric hospitals. Translated into English by D. D. Davis as Treatise on Insanity in 1806, it is influential on both sides of the Atlantic during the 19th century.
- Antonio Scarpa publishes Saggio di osservazioni e d’esperienze sulle principali malattie degli occhi, earning him the title "father of Italian ophthalmology".
- Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring publishes Abbildungen des menschlichen Auges, including the first description of the macula in the retina of the human eye.
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