Medicine
- March – The Cochrane Library launched.
- New variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease first identified in humans, in the United Kingdom.
- Sildenafil (Viagra), a treatment for erectile dysfunction, is patented by Pfizer.
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)