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Kids Encyclopedia Facts. 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.
Early life. Jesty was born in Yetminster, Dorset, and baptized there on 19 August 1736, the youngest of at least four sons of Robert Jesty, who was a butcher. Little else is known of his early life. In March 1770 he married Elizabeth Notley (1740–1824) in Longburton, four miles north-east of Yetminster.
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Jul 14, 2021 · Wellcome Library. An 1811 engraving shows an infected cow's udder and a human arm. By 1798 he had conducted experiments on 23 children and, following support from his colleagues and the king, was...
Sep 29, 2020 · During a smallpox epidemic in the west of England in 1774, farmer Benjamin Jesty decided to try something. ... The children were cared for on the journey by the orphanage director, Isabel de ...
Mary Pead (Case 22) was one of three children vaccinated with cowpox passaged from Excell. It was William Pead and J Barge who were then inoculated with smallpox by Henry Jenner. Brief mention is made of ‘a farmer named Jesty’.
- Patrick J Pead
- 2014
It is wholly appropriate, of course, to devote a chapter to the experiments conducted by Dr Edward Jenner in 1796 and 1798, including the vaccinations of two children with the same unusual surname as myself. The second half of the volume begins with the rediscovery of the ‘long-lost’ oil portrait of Benjamin Jesty.
Dec 23, 2006 · During 1774, in the face of a smallpox epidemic, he vaccinated his wife and two sons with cowpox lymph taken from lesions on the udder of an infected cow. Jesty devised and undertook his vaccination method 22 years before Edward Jenner, who is usually credited as the originator of the same practice. View Large Image.
