Word: wortley
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...treatment derived more than a half-century ago from the Orient and the Ottoman Empire. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to Constantinople, was so impressed by the Turks' resistance to the small pox that she had her own children inoculated by the Turkish method and recommended the procedure to the royal family. King George I tried it first on six captives at Newgate Prison, then on eleven charity children. Since they survived, he had his granddaughters inoculated...
...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...