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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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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...
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.
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...
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. He found out that people infected with cowpox were immune to smallpox. ©Credits.
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.
Dec 20, 2003 · Conventional wisdom holds that Edward Jenner discovered vaccination when he transferred cowpox material from the hand of Sarah Nelmes to the arm of James Phipps on May 14, 1796. In fact, the procedure had been devised and used earlier by another person—Benjamin Jesty.
