Overview of the events of 1804 in science
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The year 1804 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space science
Botany
Chemistry
Exploration
Geology
Medicine
- October 13 – In Japan, Hanaoka Seishū (華岡 青洲) performs a partial mastectomy for breast cancer on a 60-year-old woman named Kan Aiya, using tsūsensan as a general anesthetic, generally regarded as the first reliably documented operation performed under general anesthesia.[4][5][6][7]
- Publication of The Anatomy of the Human Body, vol. 3, Nervous System by Charles Bell.[8]
- English physician Joseph Mason Cox publishes Practical Observations on Insanity; in which some suggestions are offered towards and improved mode of treating diseases of the mind, and some rules proposed which it is hoped may lead to a more humane and successful method of cure.[9]
- Antonio Scarpa publishes Riflessioni ed Osservazione anatomico-chirugiche sull' Aneurisma, a classic text on aneurysms.[10]
Meteorology
Paleontology
Technology
Awards
Births
- February 12 – Heinrich Lenz, Russian-born Baltic German physicist (died 1865)
- February 18 – Baron Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian pathologist (died 1878)
- March 8 – Alvan Clark, American telescope manufacturer (died 1887)
- April 5
- May 4 – Margaretta Riley, English pteridologist (died 1899)
- May 9 – Hewett Watson, English biologist (died 1881)
- May 13 – Janet Taylor, née Jane Ann Ionn, English mathematician and navigational instrument maker (died 1870)
- June 5 – Robert Schomburgk, German-born explorer (died 1865)
- July 20 – Richard Owen, English anatomist and paleontologist (died 1892)
- September 14 – John Gould, English ornithologist (died 1881)
- September 16 – Squire Whipple, American civil engineer (died 1888)
- October 1 – William Stokes, Irish physician (died 1878)
- October 24 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (died 1891)
- December 10 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician (died 1851)
- December 24 – Édouard Chassaignac, French surgeon (died 1879)
Deaths
References
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Serturner, F. W. A. (1806) J. Pharm. f. Arzte. Apoth. Chem. 14 47–93.
- ^ Meyer, Klaus (2004). "Dem Morphin auf der Spur". Pharmazeutischen Zeitung (in German). GOVI-Verlag. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
- ^ Izuo, M. (2004). "Medical history: Seishū Hanaoka and his success in breast cancer surgery under general anesthesia two hundred years ago". Breast Cancer. 11 (4): 319–24. doi:10.1007/BF02968037. PMID 15604985. S2CID 43428862.
- ^ Hyodo, M. (1992). "Doctor S. Hanaoka, the world's-first success in providing general anesthesia". In Hyodo, M.; Oyama, T.; Swerdlow, M. (eds.). The Pain Clinic IV: proceedings of the fourth international symposium. Utrecht: VSP. pp. 3–12. ISBN 90-6764-147-2. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
- ^ Perrin, Noel (1979). Giving up the gun: Japan's reversion to the sword, 1543-1879. Boston: David R. Godine. p. 86. ISBN 0-87923-773-2. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
Giving up the gun Noel Perrin.
- ^ Matsuki, A. (2000). "New studies on the history of anesthesiology – a new study on Seishū Hanaoka's "Nyugan chiken roku" (a surgical experience with breast cancer)". Masui: The Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology. 49 (9): 1038–43. ISSN 0021-4892. PMID 11025965. Archived from the original on 2016-04-23. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
- ^ Jacyna, L. S. (2004). "Bell, Sir Charles (1774–1842)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1999. Retrieved 2011-04-06. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Cox, Joseph Mason (1806). Practical Observations on Insanity (2nd ed.). London: Baldwin. Retrieved 2023-07-30 – via Wellcome Collection..
- ^ Richardson, Benjamin Ward (1886). "Antonio Scarpa, F.R.S., and Surgical Anatomy". The Asclepiad. 4 (16). London: Longmans, Green and Co.: 128–157. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
- ^ Bevan, Michael (2004). "Parkinson, James (1755–1824)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21371. Retrieved 2010-04-11. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Rattenbury, Gordon; Lewis, M. J. T. (2004). Merthyr Tydfil Tramroads and their Locomotives. Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-52-0.
- ^ "The Burr Truss". Truss Styles of Covered Bridges. New York State Covered Bridge Society. January 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-09-08. Retrieved 2011-12-13.
- ^ Hogg, O. F. G. (1970). Artillery: its origin, heyday and decline. London: Hurst. p. 180. ISBN 0-900966-43-2.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ^ "Louis Lépecq de La Clôture (1736-1804)". data.bnf.fr. BNF. Retrieved 21 October 2020.