Medicine
- March 16 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
- July 17 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United States.
- Yellow fever kills 3093 in New Orleans.
- Henry Maudsley publishes The Physiology and Pathology of Mind.
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“Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucius.
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.