Medicine
- October 13 - In Japan, Hanaoka Seishū (華岡 青洲) performs a partial mastectomy for breast cancer on a 60 year old woman named Kan Aiya, using tsūsensan as a general anesthetic, generally regarded as the first reliably documentated operation performed under general anesthesia.
- Publication of The Anatomy of the Human Body, vol. 3, Nervous System by Charles Bell.
- Antonio Scarpa publishes Riflessioni ed Osservazione anatomico-chirugiche sull' Aneurisma, a classic text on aneurisms.
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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)
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