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The jab that saved countless lives 300 years ago

Jo Willett describes how Lady Mary Wortley Montagu pioneered smallpox inoculation in Britain, having learned of the technique in Turkey

‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in Turkish dress’ by Jean-Étienne Liotard. Credit: Alamy
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