When I use a word . . . Medical anniversaries in 2026

My list of medically related anniversaries for 2026 (events in years ending '26 and'76) includes:• Births: Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd, the physician better known as Averroes (1126); the Flemish botanist Charles de L'Ecluse (Carolus Clusius) (1576); Amadeo Avogadro, Italian physicist (1776); Johann Spurzheim, German physician (1776); George Birkbeck, English physician (1776).• Deaths: Francis Bacon (1626); Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer and gastronome (1826); Friedrich Wilhelm Weiß, German physician and composer (1826); René Laënnec, French physician (1826); Philippe Pinel, French physician (1826); Walter Channing, American physician (1876); Victor Babe<b>ș,</b> Romanian physician and bacteriologist (1926); William Bateson, English biologist (1926); Emile Coué, French pharmacist and psychologist (1926); Camillo Golgi, Italian anatomist (1926); Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (1926); Einar Aaser, Norwegian physician (1976); Andrew Arthur Abbie, Australian anatomist and anthropologist (1976); Jacques Monod, molecular biologist (1976); George Whipple, American physician (1976); Alexander S Wiener, American physician (1976).• Biomedical texts published: <i>Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam et curationem</i> by Thomas Sydenham (1676); <i>A Comment on Forty two Histories Discribed [sic] by Hippocrates in the First and Third Books of his Epidemics</i> by John Floyer (1726); <i>The botanical arrangement of all the vegetables naturally growing in Great Britain</i> by William Withering (1776); <i>De generis humani varietate nativa</i> by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1776); <i>L'uomo delinquente</i> (<i>Criminal Man</i>) by Cesare Lombroso (1876); <i>Geographical distribution of animals</i> by Alfred Wallace (1876); <i>The theory of the gene</i> by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1926).• Clinical therapies introduced: George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy (treatment of pernicious anaemia with liver, 1926).• Biochemical and bacteriological observations: Karl Wilhelm Scheele (uric acid in kidney stones, 1776); Otto Unverborden (discovery of aniline, 1826); Robert Koch (the anthrax bacillus, 1876); James Batcheller Sumner (crystallisation of jackbean urease, 1926).• Establishment of the Edinburgh Medical School (1726) and of <i>The Body Shop</i> (Anita Roddick, 1976).• Epidemics of typhus in Spain (1576) and Ebola virus infection in Yambuku, Zaire (1976).• Nobel prizes for physiology or medicine awarded to Baruch Samuel Blumberg for identifying Australia antigen as an indicator in the blood of hepatitis B and to Daniel Carleton Gajdusek for his work on the origin and spread of infectious diseases, particularly slow virus infections and specifically kuru (both 1926), and to Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger for discovering the Spiroptera carcinoma (1976).