title: Montagu's variolation.
abstract: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is sometimes mentioned by both medical and literary historians as the introducer to England of smallpox inoculation. Usually, the story is garbled by confusion with Edward Jenner's later invention, vaccination. Some historians have rejected her claim, arguing that the credit belongs to the medical establishment of the day. So just how much importance has this gifted amateur in the story of medical science?
authors.affiliation: Arts Faculty, University of Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Grundy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history; D012899:Smallpox / Q000266:history*; D012900:Smallpox Vaccine / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom
chemical_list: D012900:Smallpox Vaccine