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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 &ndash; variolation &ndash; 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 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)

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