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In addition to ending witch trials in Sweden, Charlotte de la Gardie also became famous for introducing this practice to Sweden. One ruler invited the Italian choreographer Gasparo Angiolini to stage the allegorical ballet Defeated Prejudice to promote this practice. Elbridge Gerry sponsored the creation of a facility on Children’s Island to promote this practice during 1774 riots against it in Marblehead. In the early 1800s, (-5[1])Francisco de Balmis (15[1])traveled from A Coruña to the Spanish colonies promoting this practice. (15[1])This practice, which (*) Cotton Mather learned about (10[1])through his slave (10[1])Onesimus, (10[1])was first introduced to Europeans thanks to Mary Wortley Montagu. (10[1])Thomas Dimmsdale was made a baron after performing this procedure to Catherine the Great. (10[1])James Phipps received this procedure after one man scraped pus from the milkmaid Sarah Nelmes. For 10 points, name this medical procedure whose development is largely credited to Edward Jenner. ■END■

ANSWER: smallpox inoculation [or smallpox vaccination or variolation; prompt on vaccination or inoculation by asking “against what disease?”]
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