Medicine
- April 4 - Surgeons Denton Cooley and Domingo Liotta implant the first temporary artificial heart.
- Reported as being the year the first strain of the AIDS virus (HIV) migrates to the United States via Haiti.
- The condition diffuse panbronchiolitis is named, in Japan.
- International adoption of the diagnostic term 'Sudden infant death syndrome'.
Read more about this topic: 1969 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection,—for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“After you eat always take a walk, and you’ll never have to go to a medicine shop.”
—Chinese proverb.
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