Medicine
- March - Mary Seacole opens the British Hotel at Balaclava, a nursing and convalescent establishment for Crimean War officers.
- October - The Renkioi temporary hospital, prefabricated in wood to a design by I. K. Brunel, is erected in Turkey to serve Crimean War invalids.
- Thomas Addison describes Addison's disease in On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Suprarenal Capsules.
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