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 â variolation â 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 shÅgun of Japan, Yoshimune Tokugawa.
Technology
- Richard Newsham of London obtains his first patent for a manual fire pump.
Deaths
- September 11 â Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist (born 1665)