Editing 1793 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* [[Matthew Baillie]] publishes ''The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body'', considered the first systematic study of [[pathology]] and the first publication in [[English language|English]] on it as a separate subject.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011817/Matthew-Baillie|title=Matthew Baillie|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online|accessdate=2007-08-11}}</ref> He is credited with first identifying [[transposition of the great vessels]] and ''[[situs inversus]]''.
* [[John Bell (surgeon)|John Bell]] begins publication in [[Edinburgh]] of ''The Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles & Joints'' (the first volume of ''The Anatomy of the Human Body'', which will go through at least seven editions) and ''Discourses on the Nature and Cure of Wounds'' with illustrations by himself and his brother [[Charles Bell|Charles]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=K. Grudzien|last=Baston|title=Bell, John (1763–1820)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2013|accessdate=2011-04-06|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|first=L. S.|last=Jacyna|title=Bell, Sir Charles (1774–1842)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1999|accessdate=2011-04-06|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/1999}}</ref>
* [[Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793|Yellow Fever epidemic]] in [[Philadelphia]] in the [[United States]].
* [[Dominique Jean Larrey]], chief surgeon of the [[French Revolutionary Army]], creates the first battlefield "flying [[ambulance]]" service.