Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Important in Medicine because…
· Lady Mary Wortley Montagu learnt about INNOCULATION in Turkey and introduced the idea to Britain. Innoculation had arrived in Turkey from China.
· Mild forms of the disease were given to people using a thread soaked in infected pus, it was drawn through a cut on a healthy person, and after a reaction they were then inoculated against smallpox.
· Unfortunately sometimes people still developed full-blown smallpox and died. However inncoculation was very popular as smallpox was a big killer, those surviving were left badly scarred.
· Many people became rich giving innoculations.