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Lady Montagu in Turkish dress by Jean-Étienne Liotard (c. 1756)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu survived smallpox, and popularised the Turkish practice of variolation against the disease in western Europe in the 1720s.

Credit: Jean-Étienne Liotard (c. 1756)