Editing 1879 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* British psychiatrist [[James Crichton-Browne]] publishes "On the weight of the brain and its component parts in the insane",<ref>''[[Brain (journal)|Brain]]'' [https://archive.today/20120712111711/http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/4/504.full.pdf+html '''1''': 514-18]; [https://archive.today/20120711212116/http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/1/42.full.pdf+html '''2''': 42-67]</ref> a key paper in the [[neuropathology]] of [[insanity]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Alastair|last=Compston|title=On the weight of the brain and its component parts in the insane. By J. Crichton-Browne, MD, FRSE, Lord Chancellor's Visitor. Brain 1879: 1; 514–518 and 1879: 2; 42–67|journal=Brain|volume=130|year=2007|pages=599–601|doi=10.1093/brain/awm020|issue=3|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* London physician [[William Murrell (physician)|William Murrell]] reports the successful use of [[Nitroglycerin (medication)|nitroglycerin]] as medication for [[angina]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Murrell|first=W.|title=Nitro-Glycerine as a Remedy for Angina Pectoris|date=1879|journal=[[The Lancet]]|volume=113|issue=2894|pages=225–27|url=http://site.hmc.org.qa/heartviews/vol8no3/PDF/HISTORYOFMEDICINE2.pdf|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(02)42573-1|s2cid=53436972|pmc=5901592}}</ref>
* Viennese physician [[Felix von Winiwarter]] provides an early description of ''[[Thromboangiitis obliterans]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=von Winiwarter|first=F.|title=Ueber eine eigenthumliche Form von Endarteriitis und Endophlebitis mit Gangran des Fusses|journal=Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie|volume=23|pages=202–26|year=1879}}</ref>