{"id":13479,"date":"2022-04-21T13:01:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=206787"},"modified":"2022-04-21T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T11:06:09","slug":"catherine-the-great-inoculation-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/catherine-the-great-inoculation-pioneer\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine the Great: inoculation pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Elinor Evans\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 21 April 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Lucy Ward speaks to Elinor Evans about the story of English Quaker doctor Thomas Dimsdale, who took up the risky challenge of inoculating Empress Catherine II \u2013 <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/early-modern\/catherine-great-empress-russia-did-she-murder-her-husband-tsar-peter-helen-mirren-sky-atlantic\/&quot;\">Catherine the Great<\/a> \u2013 against smallpox, as a powerful statement at a time when the disease was ravaging Russia and superstition held sway.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-206787-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/Catherine_smallpox-d9bbee5.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/Catherine_smallpox-d9bbee5.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/Catherine_smallpox-d9bbee5.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Lucy Ward is the author of <em>The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus<\/em> (Oneworld Publications, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/the-empress-and-the-english-doctor-how-catherine-the-great-defied-a-deadly-virus\/9780861542451&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Empress-English-Doctor-Catherine-defied-ebook\/dp\/B09BDCTF4L?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; 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