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    • Painting of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and son by Vanmour
    Rights: Public domain Published 18 October 2010 Size: 30 KB Referencing Hub media

    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu brought to England the procedure to inoculate against smallpox.

    From the painting by Jean Baptiste Vanmour.

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