In the history of the global eradication of smallpox, Edward Jenner tends to get the credit as the originator - but who and what does this force us to ignore?

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Images:

Portrait of Lady Mary Pierrepont, Later Wortley Montagu by Godfrey Kneller. Painted in 1710, prior to Mary’s marriage and before she had contracted smallpox. Held by the National Trust for Scotland, at Falkland Palace & Garden.

Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with her son, Edward Wortley Montagu, and attendants, by Jean Baptiste Vanmour (c.1717). Held by the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Quoted texts:

Letter from Lady Montagu to “Mrs. S.C.”, written in Adrianople, 1st April 1717, from: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mont...