1721 in science
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The year 1721 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] 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]
[edit] Psychology
- A suggestion box is developed under the eighth shogun of Japan, Yoshimune Tokugawa.
[edit] Technology
- Richard Newsham of London obtains his first patent for a manual fire pump.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- September 11 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist (b. 1665)
[edit] References
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Grundy, Isobel (2004). "Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19029. Retrieved 2011-09-27. subscription or UK public library membership required
- ^ Case, Christine L.; King-Thom, Chung (1997). "Montagu and Jenner: The Campaign Against Smallpox". SIM News 47 (2): 58–60. http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:tETsMxkPg7QJ:www.skylinecollege.edu/case/biol675/docs/Montagu-Jenner.pdf+montagu+jenner&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESheiyFKQXN2vyI9BDDW66Op1GXxLunxAoQS7sETikw62IkomUn8S6cRNXMMCwAmO2bSUmyFY0zgbPf4QJ-_uS9c8KGMK0gxJ28J_X5Sptv_o7NOhNQD2jafb6orvvpskJcTdM2_&sig=AHIEtbSpi5O-Y4HaJ-MzOQ6MmJOE55rGzg&pli=1. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
- ^ Carrell, Jennifer Lee (2003). The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0525947361.
- ^ "History of Guy's and St Thomas' Charity". http://www.gsttcharity.org.uk/aboutus/index.html. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
