Medicine
- William John Little produces his doctoral dissertation on tenotomy, the first description of this form of surgery.
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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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—Chinese proverb.
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