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==Medicine== * [[William Withering]] publishes ''An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses''. * [[John Aikin]] publishes ''A Manual of Materia Medica, Containing a Brief Account of All the Simples Directed in the London and Edinburgh Dispensatories, with Their Several Preparations and the Principal Compositions into which They Enter''. * A form of [[chainsaw]] is first illustrated by Scottish doctor John Aitken, for use in [[symphysiotomy]].<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Aitken|title=Principles of Midwifery or Puerperal Medicine|year=1785}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Skippen|first1=M.|last2=Kirkup|first2=J.|last3=Maxton|first3=R. M.|last4=McDonald|first4=S. W.|date=2004|title=The Chain Saw - A Scottish Invention|journal=Scottish Medical Journal|language=en|volume=49|issue=2|pages=72β75|doi=10.1177/003693300404900218|pmid=15209147|s2cid=19878683|issn=0036-9330}}</ref> * [[London Hospital Medical College]] opens as England's first chartered medical school.
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