Editing 1650 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* [[English people|English]] [[physician]] [[Francis Glisson]] publishes the first comprehensive [[pediatric]] text on [[rickets]], ''De rachitide sive morbo puerili, qui vulgò The rickets dicitur'', the result of collaborative research by members of the [[Royal College of Physicians]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Guido|last=Giglioni|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10819|title=Glisson, Francis (1599?–1677)|work=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|accessdate=2012-01-26|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/10819}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref>