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- 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.
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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.
Jul 14, 2021 · Smallpox was the leading cause of death in the 18th century. Most people became infected during their lifetimes, and about 30% of those infected died. Jesty had contracted cowpox in his youth and...
Jul 14, 2021 · 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.
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...
Commonly hailed as a discovery or a ‘medical breakthrough', vaccination against smallpox with cowpox exudate was a development of variolation i.e. inoculation with live smallpox matter - a technique popularised amongst the gentry in the early eighteenth century by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who had observed the procedure in Turkey in 1717.
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.
Benjamin Jesty: Grandfather of Vaccination. by Patrick J Pead MSc FHA. Fellow of The Historical Association. The definitive biography of the world’s first vaccinator. The origins of vaccination subjected to fresh analysis. New historical findings leading to a radical perspective. Hardback.
