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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...
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.
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...
The beginning. First, let us return to the 1700s, when both the farmer Benjamin Jesty and the physician Edward Jenner paid attention to the unsullied complexions of milkmaids and inferred that...
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Brief mention is made of ‘a farmer named Jesty’. This was Benjamin Jesty 4 of Yetminster in Dorset who devised and performed cowpox vaccinations against smallpox at Chetnole, near Yetminster in 1774. Two of his subjects were later challenged with smallpox by variolation and were unaffected.
