Medicine
- October 2 - Berlin urologist Maximilian Nitze and Viennese instrument-maker Josef Leiter introduce the first practical cystourethroscope with an electric light source.
- William Macewen at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary develops the first bone grafts, and also performs knee surgery using a special instrument (Macewen's osteotome), for the treatment of rickets.
- Patrick Manson studies animal carriers of infectious diseases.
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“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.
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—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
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