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==Medicine== * [[John Hunter (surgeon)|John Hunter]] publishes ''The Natural History of the Human Teeth''. * [[Samuel-Auguste Tissot]] begins publication of ''Traité des nerfs et de leurs maladies'', including a classical account of [[migraine]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=K.|last=Karbowski|date=April 1986|title=Samuel Auguste Tissot: his research on migraine|journal=[[Journal of Neurology]]|volume=233|issue=2|issn=0340-5354|pages=123–125|doi=10.1007/BF00313859|pmid=3517238|s2cid=24691943}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Pearce|first=J.M.S.|date=September 2000|title=Samuel-Auguste Tissot (1728-1797) and migraine|journal=[[Cephalalgia (journal)|Cephalalgia]]|volume=20|issue=7|pages=668–70|location=Norway|issn=0333-1024|pmid=11128826|doi=10.1111/j.1468-2982.2000.00100.x|s2cid=36466035}}</ref> * [[Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring]] describes the organization of the [[cranial nerves]]. * Publication of ''Collection of observations on diseases and epidemic constitutions'' (''Collection d’observations sur les maladies et constitutions épidémiques''), by [[Louis Lépecq de La Clôture]], work consisting mainly of a 15-year observation of the relations between climate, geography and pathologies in [[Normandy]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lépecq de La Cloture |first1=Louis |title=Collection d'observations sur les maladies et constitutions épidémiques: ouvrage qui expose une suite de quinze années d'observations, & dans lequel les épidémies, les constitutions régnantes & intercurrentes, sont liées (partie I) |date=1778 |publisher=Imprimerie privilégiée |location=Rouen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pYqzJ4ToRt0C |access-date=28 February 2021 |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lépecq de La Cloture |first1=Louis |title=Collection d'observations sur les maladies et constitutions épidémiques: ouvrage qui expose une suite de quinze années d'observations, & dans lequel les épidémies, les constitutions régnantes & intercurrentes, sont liées (partie II,III et IV) |date=1778 |publisher=Imprimerie privilégiée |location=Rouen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WyHbxb6AI_4C|access-date=28 February 2021 |language=fr}}</ref>
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