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:
“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
That skins the vice o’ the top.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“No medicine in the world can do thee good;
In thee there is not half an hour’s life.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)