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==Medicine== * February 15 – [[George Huntington]] makes the first detailed description of [[Huntington's disease]], in Middleport, Ohio<ref>{{cite journal|last=Huntington|first= G.|title=On Chorea|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Chorea|journal=Medical and Surgical Reporter of Philadelphia|volume=26|issue=15|date=1872-04-13|pages=317–321}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Lanska|first=D. J.|title=George Huntington (1850–1916) and hereditary chorea|journal=[[Journal of the History of the Neurosciences]]|volume=9|issue=1|pages=76–89|year=2000|pmid=11232352|doi=10.1076/0964-704X(200004)9:1;1-2;FT076|s2cid=22659368}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Vale|first1=Thiago Cardoso|last2=Cardoso|first2=Francisco|title=Chorea: A journey through history|journal=Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements|year=2015|volume=5|page=1–6|pmid=26056609|doi=10.7916/D8WM1C98|pmc=4454991}}</ref> * [[Moritz Kaposi]] describes [[Kaposi's sarcoma]]<ref>{{cite journal|first=Moriz|last=Kaposi|title=Idiopathisches multiples Pigmentsarkom der Haut|year=1872|journal=Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis|volume=4|issue=2|pages=265–73|doi=10.1007/bf01830024|s2cid=31438763|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1428352}} Translated as: {{cite journal|title=Idiopathic Multiple Pigmented Sarcoma of the Skin|journal=CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians|volume=32|year=1982|pages=342–7|doi=10.3322/canjclin.32.6.342|issue=6|last1=Kaposi|first1=M.|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/621.html|title=Moriz Kohn Kaposi|work=[[Who Named It?|Whonamedit?]]|accessdate=2011-03-25}}</ref> and the manifestations of [[systemic lupus erythematosus]] * Ferdinand Monoyer proposes the [[dioptre]] as a unit for measuring the [[optical power]] of a lens<ref>{{cite journal|last=Monoyer|first=F.|title=Sur l'introduction du système métrique dans le numérotage des verres de lunettes et sur le choix d'une unité de réfraction|journal=Annales d'Oculistiques|volume=68|page=101|year=1872}}</ref>
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