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1785 in science

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1785 in science
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The year 1785 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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Astronomy

Aviation

Biology

Earth sciences

Exploration

Mathematics

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.[3][4]
  • London Hospital Medical College opens as England's first chartered medical school.
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