Lady Mary Wortley Montagu survived smallpox, and popularised the Turkish practice of variolation against the disease in western Europe in the 1720s.
Credit: Jean-Étienne Liotard (c. 1756)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu survived smallpox, and popularised the Turkish practice of variolation against the disease in western Europe in the 1720s.
Credit: Jean-Étienne Liotard (c. 1756)