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2 slides Credit: Universal Images Group via Getty A 300-Year-Old Tale Of One Woman s Quest To Stop A Deadly Virus By Three hundred years ago, in 1721, England was in the grips of a smallpox epidemic. There were people dying all over the place, says Isobel Grundy, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Alberta in Canada. Social life came to a standstill — and all the things we ve suddenly become familiar with again. But as Londoners cowered inside their homes, there was a woman who knew how to end the outbreak. Her name was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and she had learned a technique from women in the distant Ottoman Empire that could stop the pox in its tracks.

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