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In 1716, Lady Mary traveled to Turkey with her husband (Britain's ambassador to the Sultan). Among women in the harems, she investigated tales of a strange and revolting procedure said to protect against smallpox. In
1721, back in London, an epidemic threatened her children with the same
agonies that she had suffered. Western doctors were helpless in the
face of the disease, but Lady Mary had seen that Turkish women were
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