Editing 1672 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* [[Paul Barbette]] publishes ''Opera omnia medica et chirurgica''.
* [[Richard Lower (physician)|Richard Lower]] publishes ''De Catarrhis'', the first scholarly attempt by an English physician to take a classical doctrine (the theory that nasal [[catarrh]] is caused by secretions overspilling from the brain) and to disprove it by scientific experiment.
* Dutch physician [[Regnier de Graaf]] describes the female reproductive system.<ref>''[https://archive.org/details/BIUSante_34292/page/n3 De mulierum organis generationi inservientibus tractatus novus: demonstrans tam homines & animalia caetera omnia, quae vivipara dicuntur, haud minus quàm ovipara ab ovo originem ducere.]''</ref>
* [[Isbrand van Diemerbroeck]] publishes the first edition of his ''Anatome corporis humani'' in [[Utrecht]].
* [[Thomas Willis]] publishes the earliest [[English language|English]] work on medical [[psychology]], ''Two Discourses concerning The Soul of Brutes, Which is that of the Vital and Sensitive of Man''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Thomas Willis|url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/336.html|work=[[Who Named It?|Whonamedit?]]|accessdate=2011-03-15}}</ref>