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1721 in science

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The year 1721 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Medicine

  • The use of ether is developed as a pain-killer.
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu introduces the Ottoman Turkish method of inoculation against smallpox – variolation – to London.
  • Thomas Guy founds Guy's Hospital in London to treat "incurables" discharged from St Thomas'.

Psychology

  • A suggestion box is developed under the eighth shōgun of Japan, Yoshimune Tokugawa.

Technology

  • Richard Newsham of London obtains his first patent for a manual fire pump.

Deaths

  • September 11 – Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist (born 1665)

References

References

  1. Williams, Hywel. (2005). "Cassell's Chronology of World History". Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
  2. Grundy, Isobel. (2004). "Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley". Oxford University Press.
  3. (1997). "Montagu and Jenner: The Campaign Against Smallpox". SIM News.
  4. Carrell, Jennifer Lee. (2003). "The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox". Dutton.
  5. "History of Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation".
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