Editing 1758 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* French midife [[Angélique du Coudray]] demonstrates the first [[Obstetrics|obstetric]] mannequin.
* [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[physician]] [[Francis Home]] makes the first attempt to deliver a [[measles vaccine]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Waterston|first1=Charles D.|last2=Macmillan Shearer|first2=A.|title=Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index|url=http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp1.pdf|accessdate=2011-11-19|volume=I|date=July 2006|publisher=[[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]|isbn=978-0-902198-84-5|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004113545/http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp1.pdf|archivedate=2006-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Enders|first=J. F.|date=December 1961 – February 1962|title=Vaccination against measles: Francis Home redivivus|journal=Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine|volume=34|pages=239–60}}</ref>