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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...
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 · Benjamin Jesty: The unsung hero of vaccination. 14 July 2021. Wellcome Collection. Edward Jenner is credited with developing the first vaccine. More than 250 years before the coronavirus...
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 trio of vaccinees remained free of smallpox, although they were exposed on numerous occasions in later life. Benjamin Jesty was neither the first nor the last to experiment with vaccination. In fact, the use of smallpox and cowpox was widely known among the country physicians in the dairy counties of 18th-century England.
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...
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. Benjamin Jesty: the first vaccinator revealed - The Lancet
