Medicine
- May 1 – The initial case definition of Chronic fatigue syndrome (the "Holmes definition") is published, displacing the name Chronic Epstein-Barr virus syndrome.
- Patricia Bath patents the Laserphaco Probe, a device "for ablating and removing cataract lenses".
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“No medicine in the world can do thee good;
In thee there is not half an hour’s life.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucius.