Medicine
- July - Waldemar Haffkine demonstrates the first anti-cholera vaccine.
- First edition of William Osler's textbook The Principles and Practice of Medicine, designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine is published in Edinburgh while the author is Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. It remains internationally significant in medical education for forty years.
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