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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 . The notion that those people infected with cowpox, a relatively mild disease, were subsequently protected against smallpox was not an uncommon observation with country ...
Jul 14, 2021 · Wellcome Library. 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 ...
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 · Wellcome Library. 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 ...
Feb 21, 2019 · During a smallpox epidemic in 1774, English farmer Benjamin Jesty used the cowpox virus to successfully inoculate his wife but did not make his experiment public. Photograph by SM/SSPL/AGE FOTOSTOCK
Dec 23, 2006 · Jesty was a farmer who lived in the village of Yetminster in North Dorset, UK. He was convinced of the folk tale that milkmaids who contracted cowpox during their work somehow became protected against smallpox. 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 ...
Benjamin Jesty ( figure 1 ), a tenant farmer, lived in a substantial stone farmhouse named Upbury ( figure 2 ), next to St Andrew's Church in the centre of Yetminster village, near Sherborne, UK. In 1774, he was aged 37 years and had been married for 4 years to Elizabeth, 35 years; they had two sons, Robert (3 years), Benjamin (2 years), and a ...
