Medicine
- October 13 - In Japan, Hanaoka Seishū (華岡 青洲) performs a partial mastectomy for breast cancer on a 60 year old woman named Kan Aiya, using tsūsensan as a general anesthetic, generally regarded as the first reliably documentated operation performed under general anesthesia.
- Publication of The Anatomy of the Human Body, vol. 3, Nervous System by Charles Bell.
- Antonio Scarpa publishes Riflessioni ed Osservazione anatomico-chirugiche sull' Aneurisma, a classic text on aneurisms.
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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)
“We gave ‘em wings to fly and they rained death on us. We gave ‘em a voice to be heard around the world and they preach hatred to poison the minds of nations. Even the medicine we gave them to ease their pain is turned into a vice to enslave half mankind for the profit of a few. Ah, Janet, dear, don’t you see? Every gift that science has given them has been twisted into a thing of hate and greed.”
—Karl Brown (1897–1990)
“No medicine in the world can do thee good;
In thee there is not half an hour’s life.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)