Lady Mary Wortley's Smallpox Vaccination

Early one summer morning in the 18th century a father and son sat down to breakfast. Young Marston Hodgin said to his father, "Father dear, I've a bloody awful backache, and my face is a bit flushed." Marston Hodgin Sr. stared at his son in astonishment and horror, "Son, what 'ave you there? Those oozy dots on your face give me a bit of a fright. To your bed!" The first known death from smallpox …

…Wortley did not invent the vaccination, or the inoculation process, she is largely responsible for the progress of them. Jenner invented the vaccination because his inoculation was performed by an inexperienced doctor, and Jenner wanted there to be a more reliable method of preventing the plague. If Lady Mary had not pushed the inoculation as she did, Jenner would have not have had an inoculation, and the world would very likely still be without vaccinations.