Medicine
- January 18 – Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the "Legionnaires' disease".
- July 3 – Dr Raymond Damadian with Larry Minkoff and Michael Goldsmith perform the first magnetic resonance imaging body scan of a human.
- September 11 – The last "wild" infection of smallpox is reported in Somalia.
- September 16 – The first percutaneous coronary intervention on a sentient patient is performed by cardiologist Andreas Gruentzig in Zurich.
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“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.
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In thee there is not half an hour’s life.”
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“Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucius.