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Mary Wortley Montagu was the first person to introduce and campaign for vaccination in Britain. In March 1717, she witnessed the practice of inoculation against smallpox in Turkey and had her son inoculated, the first English person to undergo the procedure. She then convinced the Royal Family to inoculate their children.
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