Medicine
- Nikolay Anichkov first demonstrates the significance and role of cholesterol in atherosclerosis pathogenesis.
- Albert Schweitzer sets up the Albert Schweitzer Hospital at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa.
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“In view of the fact that the number of people living too long has risen catastrophically and still continues to rise.... Question: Must we live as long as modern medicine enables us to?... We control our entry into life, it is time we began to control our exit.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
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“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.