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Lady Mary Wortley Montigu went to Turkey in 1717 and witnessed the inoculation of Smallpox (a deadly disease) then wrote about it and cured many people in England when she returned. Although the inoculation also killed a few people.

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What has the author Mary Wortley Montagu written?

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How did lady Mary wortley Montague help prevent dieseas caused by micro organisms?

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is credited with introducing and promoting the practice of variolation, a precursor to vaccination, in Western Europe. She observed the practice in the Ottoman Empire and had her own children inoculated against smallpox. This helped to prevent the spread of the disease and contributed to the eventual development of smallpox vaccination.


Where was Lady Mary Wortley Montague born?

She was born in London (England.


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The Lady Mary Wortley Montagu mostly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from Turkey, which have been described as "the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient" and for discovered the local practice of inoculation against small pox while in the Ottoman Empire and bringing it back to London and immunizing her own family, where the imminization there became more popular.