Medicine
- June - The first pediatric hospital, the Hôpital des Enfants Malades, opens in Paris, on the site of a previous orphanage.
- London Fever Hospital founded.
- Charles Bell publishes The Anatomy of the Brain, Explained in a Series of Engravings.
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“He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucius.
“Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it’s long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)