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The Woman Who Stymied Smallpox - E-book - ePub
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Résumé
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu lost her brother to smallpox in 1713 and contracted the disease herself two years later. When she traveled to the Ottoman Empire as the British Ambassador's wife, she witnessed people being inoculated against the virus. She brought the preventative treatment back to England and faced resistance. After safely inoculating her own daughter, she gathered support, and inoculat
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Date de parution30/04/2019
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Editeur
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ISBN978-0-463-37266-1
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EAN9780463372661
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FormatePub
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Biographie de Richard Diedrichs
Richard Diedrichs grew up in Los Angeles. He edited travel and health magazines in Seattle, worked as an editor at the schools of Engineering and Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and then taught Fourth and Fifth grades and Kindergarten in public elementary schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. Richard has published novels, short stories, nonfiction and essays. He currently works as an assistant editor at Narrative Magazine.Richard lives in a beach town on the south central California coast.