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1721 in science
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
shà Âgun
of Japan,
Yoshimune Tokugawa
.
Technology
Richard Newsham
of London obtains his first
patent
for a manual fire pump.
Deaths
September 11 âÂÂ
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
, German
botanist
(born
1665
)
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