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.[1][2][3][4]
• Thomas Guy founds Guy's Hospital in London to treat "incurables" discharged from St Thomas'.[5]

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

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Grundy, Isobel (2004). "Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-09-27. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
3. Case, Christine L.; King-Thom, Chung (1997). "Montagu and Jenner: The Campaign Against Smallpox". SIM News. 47 (2): 58–60. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
4. Carrell, Jennifer Lee (2003). The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0-525-94736-1.
5. "History of Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation". Archived from the original on 2021-07-07. Retrieved 2021-07-22.