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:
“God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.
“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.)