Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Background

An English aristocrat and writer who observed variolation in Constantinople.

Contribution

Introduced smallpox variolation (inoculation) to Britain in the early 1720s, popularizing a practice that predated Jenner's vaccine.

Associated inventions

• Vaccination

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Edward Jenner
• Onesimus

Sources & further reading

Each citation names the publisher and the exact reference title.

• U.S. National Library of Medicine — history of medicineU.S. National Library of Medicine (NIH) · Government / archive
• Encyclopædia Britannica — technology & biography topic articlesEncyclopædia Britannica · Encyclopedia

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