1721 in science

none 1721 science 1721 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.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8Grundy Isobel Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19029 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 2011-09-27 Case Christine L. Chung King-Thom https://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 Montagu and Jenner: The Campaign Against Smallpox SIM News 47 2 58–60 1997 2011-09-27Jennifer Lee Carrell The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox New York Dutton 2003 0-525-94736-1 registration https://archive.org/details/speckledmonsterh00carr_0 Thomas Guy founds Guy's Hospital in London to treat "incurables" discharged from St Thomas'.https://gsttfoundation.org.uk/about-us/our-history/ History of Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation 2021-07-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20210707082420/https://gsttfoundation.org.uk/about-us/our-history/ 2021-07-07 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 Category:18th century in science Category:1720s in science