Editing 1885 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* January 4 – The first successful [[appendectomy]] is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
* July 6 – [[Louis Pasteur]] and [[Émile Roux]] successfully test their [[rabies vaccine]]. The patient is [[Joseph Meister]], a boy bitten by a rabid dog.
* [[Georges Gilles de la Tourette]] publishes an account of nine patients with what will become known as [[Tourette syndrome]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://web2.bium.univ-paris5.fr/livanc/?cote=epo0383&do=livre|author=Gilles de la Tourette|title=Etude sur une affection nerveuse charactérisée par de l'incoordination motrice accompagnée d'écholalie et de coprolalie (jumping, latah, myriachit)|journal=Archives de Neurologie|year=1885|volume=9|pages=19–42|accessdate=2011-04-11}}</ref>