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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. Smallpox was the leading cause...
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...
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.
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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.
Black and white reproduction of an oil painting portrait of Benjamin Jesty (c. 1736-1816). Jesty, a cattle farmer from Dorset, England, gained notoriety as a key contributor to the linkage of cowpox and smallpox. He was the first recognized person to introduce cowpox inoculation, a procedure he experimented with on his wife and children.
- Sharp, Michael William, c. 1776-1840
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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.
Sep 11, 2011 · That Dr Edward Jenner was the first to vaccinate is one of the best-known medical myths, yet this misinformation is still presented in the media and most popular history books. Jenner was preceded nearly a quarter of a century before by the Dorset farmer Benjamin Jesty who vaccinated his wife Elizabeth and two sons, Robert and Benjamin, in the ...
