Editing 1880 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* January 24 – [[English people|English]] [[surgeon]] [[Sampson Gamgee]] reports on his use of the [[Dressing (medical)|medical dressing]] [[Gamgee Tissue]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Absorbent and medicated surgical dressings|first=J. S.|last=Gamgee|journal=[[The Lancet]]|volume=115|issue=2943|pages=127–128|date=1880-01-24|doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(02)36703-5 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1428562}}</ref>
* July
** German professor of pathology [[Karl Joseph Eberth|Karl Eberth]] first visualizes the bacteria which will become known as ''[[Salmonella]]'' in the [[Peyer's patch]]es and [[spleen]]s of typhoid patients.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Die Organismen in den Organen bei Typhus abdominalis|journal=[[Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin]]|date=1880-07-01|issn = 0720-8723|pages=58–74|volume=81|issue=1|doi=10.1007/BF01995472|language=de|first=C. J.|last=Eberth|s2cid=6979333 }}</ref>
** [[Scottish people|Scottish]] surgeon [[William Macewen]] reports on his use of oro[[tracheal intubation]] as an alternative to [[tracheotomy]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Macewen|first=William|title=Clinical Observations on the Introduction of Tracheal Tubes by the Mouth, Instead of Performing Tracheotomy or Laryngotomy|journal=[[BMJ|The British Medical Journal]]|volume=2|pages=122–4|date=1880-07-24|doi=10.1136/bmj.2.1021.122|pmid=20749630|pmc=2241154|issue=1021|jstor=25254413}}; {{cite journal|last=Macewen|first=William|title=Clinical Observations on the Introduction of Tracheal Tubes by the Mouth, Instead of Performing Tracheotomy or Laryngotomy|journal=[[BMJ]]|volume=2|pages=163–5|date=1880-07-31|doi=10.1136/bmj.2.1022.163|pmid=20749636|pmc=2241109|issue=1022|jstor=25254466}}</ref>
* [[Moritz Kaposi]] publishes ''Pathologie und Therapie der Hautkrankheiten in Vorlesungen für praktische Ärzte und Studierende'' ("Pathology and treatment of diseases of the skin, for practitioners and students"), a significant textbook in [[dermatology]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Holubar |first1=Karl |last2=Fatovic-Ferencic |first2=Stella |title=Moriz Kaposi 1837-1902: a historical reappraisal |url=http://www.oegdv.at/dl/history/histkaposi.doc |accessdate=2011-03-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070507165728/http://oegdv.at/dl/history/histkaposi.doc |archivedate=2007-05-07 }}</ref>