Medicine
- Discovery by Emil von Behring and Kitasato Shibasaburō that an anti-toxin for immunizing people against diphtheria can be prepared by injecting diphtheria toxin into animals.
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal publishes the first edition of Manual de Anatomia Pathologica General.
- Robert Koch publishes his postulates on the causal relationship between microbes and diseases.
- William James publishes Principles of Psychology.
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