Editing 1798 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* [[Edward Jenner]] publishes ''An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the [[Cowpox|Cow Pox]]'', describing the [[smallpox vaccine]], in London.
* [[Charles Bell]]  publishes ''A System of Dissection Explaining the Anatomy of the Human Body'' in collaboration with his brother [[John Bell (surgeon)|John]].<ref>{{cite web|first=L. S.|last=Jacyna|title=Bell, Sir Charles (1774–1842)|work=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1999|accessdate=2011-04-06|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/1999}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref>
* [[Alexander Crichton]] publishes ''An inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement; comprehending a concise system of the physiology and pathology of the human mind and a history of the passions and their effects'', including a description of a condition resembling the inattentive subtype of [[attention deficit hyperactivity disorder]].
* [[John Dalton]] publishes "Extraordinary Facts Relating to the Vision of Colours", describing [[colour blindness]] for the first time in print.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dalton|first=J.|year=1798|title=Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours; with observations|journal=Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester|volume=5|pages=28–45}} The original lecture was delivered in 1794.</ref>
* [[Philippe Pinel]] publishes ''Nosographie philosophique, ou méthode de l'analyse appliquée à la médecine'', emphasising the importance of [[nosology]] (classification of diseases) to medicine. It goes through six editions in the next ten years.<ref>{{cite book|last=Burke|first=James|title=The Day the Universe Changed|location=London|publisher=[[BBC]]|year=1985|authorlink=James Burke (science historian)|isbn=0-563-20192-4|page=207}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring]] publishes ''Tabula sceleti feminini'' in [[Frankfurt am Main]], the first accurate representation of the female skeleton.