Medicine
- Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
- Henry Maudsley publishes his lectures on Body and Mind: an Inquiry into their Connection and Mutual Influence.
- Frances Morgan becomes the first British woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree from a European university, the University of Zurich.
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