Medicine and Human Sciences
- July 5 - The National Health Service begins functioning in the United Kingdom, giving the right to universal healthcare, free at point of use.
- In psychology, Bertram Forer demonstrates the Forer effect (that people tend to accept generalised descriptions of personality as uniquely applicable to themselves).
- Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, is published in the United States.
- Julius Axelrod and Bernard Brodie identify the analgesic properties of acetaminophen.
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Famous quotes containing the words medicine, human and/or sciences:
“Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucius.
“I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and say the right thing at the right time. It coexists with very ordinary qualities, and yet many great geniuses are without it. Of all human qualities I consider it the most convenient—not always the highest; yet I would rather have it than many more shining qualities.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)