Editing 1761 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* [[Leopold Auenbrugger]] publishes ''Novum ex Percussione Thoracis Humani Interni Pectoris Morbos Detegendi'' in Vienna, for the first time advocating [[Percussion (medicine)|percussion]] of the chest as a diagnostic measure.
* [[Giovanni Battista Morgagni]] publishes ''{{lang|la|De Sedibus et causis morborum per anatomem indagatis}}'' ("Of the seats and causes of diseases investigated through anatomy", published in Venice), a pioneering work of [[anatomical pathology]].
* [[Samuel-Auguste Tissot]] publishes ''Avis au peuple sur sa santé'', a popular text of the century.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Patrick|last=Singy|title=The popularization of medicine in the eighteenth century: writing, reading, and rewriting Samuel Auguste Tissot's ''Avis au peuple sur sa santé''|doi=10.1086/656073|jstor=656073|journal=[[The Journal of Modern History]]|volume=82|year=2010|pages=769–800}}</ref>

=== Veterinary medicine ===
* August 4 – [[Claude Bourgelat]] founds the first [[veterinary school]], in [[Lyon]]; courses begin in [[1762 in science|1762]].