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Events
At the end of 1758 and early 1759, Madagascar and Mauritius had smallpox.
Early 1759: the plague epidemic in Alexandria killed six people.
: plague epidemic in Cyprus following the shipwreck on the west coast of Cyprus, in April, of a ship leaving Alexandria: part of the crew recaptured contaminates villages near the shipwreck, then the entire island is contaminated.
Date unknown
Miliary Suette Epidemic in Guise.
The King's House includes an oculist doctor, Pierre Demours. Louis XV created for him the charge of attaching to his person.

Publications

Angélique du Coudray (1714-1789) published the Abstract of the Art of Births.

Births
(died 1820), Italian doctor.
February 20: Johann Christian Reil (died 1813), German doctor, anatomist, physiologist and psychiatrist.
June 29: William Roxburgh (died 1815), Scottish doctor and botanist.
19 July: Jacques Anselme Dorthès (died 1794), French physician and naturalist.
November 10: Friedrich von Schiller (died 1805), better known as German poet and writer and less as a military doctor.
December 2: James Edward Smith (died 1828), English doctor and botanist.
Date unknown
Philibert Borie (died 1832), French doctor, acting mayor of Paris from 7 to 1832.
Maria Petraccini (died 1791), Italian physician and obstetrician.

Deaths
16 February: (born 1712), Irish surgeon, founder of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin in 1745.
March 10: Antoine Magnol (born 1676), French doctor and botanist.

Notes and references

History of Medicine
1759