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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu defied convention, most memorably by promoting smallpox inoculation to Western medicine after witnessing it during her travels and stay in the Ottoman Empire. Previously, Lady Mary's brother had died of smallpox in 1713, and although Lady Mary recovered from the disease in 1715, it left her with a disfigured face. [35]
Mar 5, 2019 · Lady Mary Montagu was suffering through smallpox, a.k.a. “the speckled monster,” a disease that in her day — the early 18th century — was the deadliest on earth, eventually wiping out more...
Mar 8, 2021 · Lady Mary Wortley Montagu learned of a way to stop smallpox from women in the Ottoman Empire in the early 18th century. Trying to persuade her country to do the same proved tricky. Sepia...
Mar 31, 2021 · Montagu was the first person in the West to have her daughter inoculated against smallpox with a Turkish technique in 1721. She faced opposition from doctors and clerics, but her pioneering work paved the way for vaccines and the eradication of the disease.
Jul 20, 2021 · In 1721, there was a smallpox epidemic, and Wortley Montagu asked the embassy doctor, who had come to London with her, to engraft her young daughter who had not been inoculated. Nervous for...
Lady Mary and smallpox. Lady Mary’s life was impacted profoundly by smallpox. It killed several relatives, including her brother and many friends. In 1715 she contracted the disease herself, just as she was making an impact in the Royal Court.
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