Lagrange publishes hisRésolution des équations numériques, including the method of approximating to the real roots of an equation by means ofcontinued fractions.
Edward Jenner publishesAn Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of theCow Pox, describing thesmallpox vaccine, in London.
Charles Bell publishesA System of Dissection Explaining the Anatomy of the Human Body in collaboration with his brotherJohn.[2]
Alexander Crichton publishesAn inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement; comprehending a concise system of the physiology and pathology of the human mind and a history of the passions and their effects, including a description of a condition resembling the inattentive subtype ofattention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
John Dalton publishes "Extraordinary Facts Relating to the Vision of Colours", describingcolour blindness for the first time in print.[3]
Philippe Pinel publishesNosographie philosophique, ou méthode de l'analyse appliquée à la médecine, emphasising the importance ofnosology (classification of diseases) to medicine. It goes through six editions in the next ten years.[4]
^Dalton, J. (1798). "Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours; with observations".Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.5:28–45. The original lecture was delivered in 1794.
