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==Physiology and medicine== * [[Irish people|Irish]] [[physician]] [[Robert James Graves]] first describes symptoms of [[Graves' disease]].<ref>{{WhoNamedIt|doctor|695|Mathew Graves}}</ref><ref>Graves, R. J. (1835). "New observed affection of the thyroid gland in females" (Clinical lectures). ''London Medical and Surgical Journal'' (Renshaw) '''7''': 516–517. Repr. in ''Medical Classics'' (1940) '''5''': 33–36.</ref> * [[French people|French]] physician [[Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis]] publishes his book ''Recherches sur les effets de la saignée dans quelques maladies inflammatoires et sur l'action de l'émétique et des vésicatoires dans la pneumonie'' in [[Paris]], in which he analyzes case studies to demonstrate that [[bloodletting]] is largely ineffective as a treatment.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis and the evaluation of bloodletting|first=Alfredo|last=Morabia|journal=[[Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine]]|volume=99|issue=3|pages=158–160|pmc=1383766|pmid=16508057|url=|doi=10.1177/014107680609900322|date=March 2006}}</ref> * [[Belgians|Belgian]] statistician [[Adolphe Quetelet]] publishes his books ''Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés, ou Essai de physique sociale'', in which he presents his theory of human [[variance]] around the [[average]], with human traits being distributed according to a [[Normal distribution|normal curve]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Eiseley|first=Loren|title=Darwin's Century|url=https://archive.org/details/darwinscenturye000eise|url-access=registration|year=1961|publisher=Anchor Books (Doubleday)|page=[https://archive.org/details/darwinscenturye000eise/page/227 227]}}</ref>
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