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==Medicine== * May β First patient admitted to the Westminster Public Infirmary, predecessor of [[St George's Hospital]], London. * [[Dr Steevens' Hospital]] is established at [[Kilmainham]], [[Dublin]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kirkpatrick|first=Thomas Percy Claude|year=1924|title=The History of Dr Steevens' Hospital, Dublin 1720β1920|publisher=Dublin University Press}}</ref> * [[Great Plague of Marseille]], the last major outbreak of [[bubonic plague]] in Europe. * English physician [[Richard Mead]] publishes ''A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it''.
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