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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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.
“No medicine in the world can do thee good;
In thee there is not half an hour’s life.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)