Medicine
- James W. Black synthesises propranolol, the first beta blocker (used for regulation of angina pectoris), which becomes the world's best-selling drug.
- Joseph Murray performs the first cadaveric renal transplant.
- Nodding disease is first documented, in southern Tanzania.
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.... It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)
“Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucius.