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Well-educated, adventurous and a promoter of trailblazing science, there was much to distinguish 18th century aristocrat Lady Mary Wortley Montagu from her peers.
Although most famous for her letters about life in the Ottoman Empire - written during her husband s posting as ambassador to Constantinople - it is her work with smallpox inoculation that is brought to the forefront in a new biography.
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist, by Jo Willett, reveals how the diarist went from an independent child who taught herself Latin to a medical campaigner who brought the first smallpox inoculation to Britain in 1721.
How Mary Wortley Montagu s smallpox fight paved the way for vaccines
Mary Wortley Montagu championed the use of inoculation against smallpox, but her pioneering work is often overlooked, says
Jo Willett
Michelle D’urbano
WITH the world’s attention on vaccines, now feels like a good moment to sing the praises of an often forgotten contributor to their development. Three hundred years ago this month, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu got her daughter inoculated against smallpox with a technique that was unfamiliar to people in Britain at the time – making her child the first person in the West to be protected in this way. Without Montagu’s willingness to adopt a practice she had learned from other cultures, the introduction of vaccines around 80 years later would never have taken place.
How Mary Wortley Montagu s bold experiment led to smallpox vaccine – 75 years before Jenner
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