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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 22, 2023
Lady Mary Montagu and Europe’s First Tool Against Smallpox
In the seventeenth century, smallpox ravaged Europe with a persistent ferocity beyond reckoning. At its height, it killed 400,000...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 22, 2023
‘I Doubled My Fist’ Sara Josephine Baker and the Fight for Child Hygiene
How deep can hopelessness go? Is there a lower limit, a solid floor against which we can push and thrust ourselves back into some...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 22, 2023
The Path of Most Resistance: Sophia Jex-Blake and the Fight for Women’s Medical Education
She had founded first England’s and then Scotland’s first medical school for women, and been instrumental in the passing of the Medical...
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