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Benjamin Jesty by Michael William Sharp, 1805. Benjamin Jesty (c. 1736 – 16 April 1816) was a farmer at Yetminster in Dorset, England, notable for his early experiment in inducing immunity against smallpox using cowpox . The notion that those people infected with cowpox, a relatively mild disease, were subsequently protected against smallpox ...
Jul 14, 2021 · Wellcome Library. Jesty's story began in 1774, when the farmer from Yetminster deliberately infected his family with cowpox in a bid to protect them from the deadly smallpox virus. Smallpox was ...
Sep 29, 2020 · During a smallpox epidemic in the west of England in 1774, farmer Benjamin Jesty decided to try something. He scratched some pus from cowpox lesions on the udders of a cow into the skin of his ...
In 1774, Benjamin Jesty makes a breakthrough. Testing his hypothesis that infection with cowpox – a bovine virus which can spread to humans – could protect a person from smallpox Dr Edward Jenner created the world's first successful vaccine.
Dec 23, 2006 · This year the UK's Wellcome Trust bought the only oil painting of the first vaccinator, Benjamin Jesty. This was noteworthy because the portrait was thought to be lost and only a few relations of the previous owner knew of its existence until 2004. Jesty was a farmer who lived in the village of Yetminster in North Dorset, UK. He was convinced of the folk tale that milkmaids who contracted ...
- Patrick J Pead
- 2006
Dec 20, 2003 · Benjamin Jesty ( figure 1 ), a tenant farmer, lived in a substantial stone farmhouse named Upbury ( figure 2 ), next to St Andrew's Church in the centre of Yetminster village, near Sherborne, UK. In 1774, he was aged 37 years and had been married for 4 years to Elizabeth, 35 years; they had two sons, Robert (3 years), Benjamin (2 years), and a ...
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Learn how Benjamin Jesty, a Dorset farmer, vaccinated his family with cowpox in 1774, before Edward Jenner. This article by Patrick J Pead explores the history and myths of vaccination.
