The Woman Who Stymied Smallpox The Woman Who Stymied Smallpox

The Woman Who Stymied Smallpox

Richard Diedrichs
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu lost her brother to smallpox in 1713 and contracted the disease herself two years later. When she traveled to the Ottoman Empire as the British Ambassador's wife, she witnessed people being inoculated against the virus. She brought the preventative treatment back to England and faced resistance. After safely inoculating her own daughter, she gathered support, and inoculat

GENRE
Biographies et mémoires
SORTIE
2019
29 avril
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
LONGUEUR
6
Pages
ÉDITIONS
Richard Diedrichs
TAILLE
82
Ko

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