Medicine
- August 20 - Ronald Ross discovers the malaria Plasmodium in an Anopheles mosquito, demonstrating the transmission mechanism for the disease.
- Epinephrine discovered by John Jacob Abel.
- Chemists working at Bayer AG create a synthetically altered version of salicin which the company names Aspirin.
- L. Emmett Holt publishes the standard textbook The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood in New York.
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“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
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—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
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—H.L. (Henry Lewis)