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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Part 1

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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Inoculation of Smallpox by a Turkey Merchant

There were a lot of religious proponents as well, and so we're going to leave them to fight their theocrotic battles among themselves. But another enemy of inoculation rose up. This one mary already predicted doctors were angered by amateurs and women. And let me quote. There is a pamphlet by a man with the shakespearian name of william wagstaff, who urged doctors not to allow their profession to be usurped. He says, posterity will scarcely be brought to believe that an experiment practised only by a few ignorant women amongst an illiterate people should suddenly receive into the royal palace. So lady mary was angry, and she took up her own

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