Word: meishan
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...science of immunology dates back considerably farther than the year 1796. In the year A.D. 1000 the Chinese physician Yo-Meishan successfully inoculated the emperor's grandson with dried crusts of smallpox to render him immune from a serious attack. This practice of inoculation was introduced into England in 1721 by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, wife of the British Ambassador at Constantinople, who had had her son inoculated in Turkey...
...born in 1036 in Meishan, Szechuan province, in western China, died in 1101 in Changchow on the east coast, nearly 25 years before the conquest of northern China by the Khitans. His political life was spent in unswerving opposition to an oppression that masqueraded as social reform...
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