How One Daring Woman Introduced the Idea of Smallpox Inoculation to England

[Miigwech]

She should also have been lauded as a pioneer of medicine. But her great achievement remained little-known until recently. As the scientist Francis Galton later put it, “In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”

https://time.com/5542895/mary-montagu-smallpox/

[catrose]

1. It's an incredible story

The selling point was when the Royal Family got inoculated.

I think of her when the anti-vaxxers wail. I mean, there was a 20% chance people would catch smallpox and die even with (or from) inoculation, but people then thought those were good odds.