Catherine the Great: inoculation pioneer
Lucy Ward recounts the story of a Quaker doctor who took up the risky challenge of inoculating an empress against smallpox
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Show Notes
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 against smallpox, as a powerful statement at a time when the disease was ravaging Russia and superstition held sway.
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