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Lady Mary Montagu's Smallpox Experiment

Science Stories by BBC

Jan 2, 201927:37Science & Medicine

Naomi Alderman's Science Story reveals how Lady Mary Wortley Montagu experimented on her own child in a quest to prove that smallpox inoculation works. Born in 1689 in a position of some power and influence, Lady Mary tr...

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Lady Mary Montagu's Smallpox Experiment is an episode from Science Stories by BBC. Naomi Alderman's Science Story reveals how Lady Mary Wortley Montagu experimented on her own child in a quest to prove that smallpox inoculation works. Born...

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