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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...
Jul 14, 2021 · By 1798 he had conducted experiments on 23 children and, following support from his colleagues and the king, was awarded vast sums by parliament - first £10,000 in 1802, then a further £20,000 in...
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.
Dec 20, 2003 · Although Benjamin Jesty's only experience of life was that of a farmer in a rural community, Jesty had based his experiment on a plausible hypothesis formed from his personal observations and experience—evident from the report of the officers of the Institute in 1805 .
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Feb 13, 2022 · In his haste to leave Upbury Farm in Yetminster, Benjamin Jesty did not even bother to mend the broken gates and fences for the new owner. He didn’t care about paying the heavy fine for the ...
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.
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35 years; they had two sons, Robert (3 years), Benjamin (2 years), and a baby daughter, Elizabeth. Benjamin Jesty was the epitome of many farmers at the time of George III. He was intelligent, prosperous, and a pillar of the local community. These were revolu-tionary days in the approach to farming.
