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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 · 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.
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 .
- Patrick J Pead
- 2003
Feb 13, 2022 · It was in 1774, when smallpox again threatened the English countryside, that Jesty experimented with his family. He was not a doctor, nor a man of science, but a plain farmer with an ordinary...
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 · 💉 The Dorset farmer who invented vaccines Benjamin Jesty injected his family with cowpox thinking it would protect them from a deadly virus sweeping across Europe. It worked. 🎧 Hear the full story 👉 https://bbc.in/3klfuzp
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- 2001
- BBC Radio Solent
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Here is a tale of endeavour spiced with human interest, the story of a quest that witnessed Man’s attempts to find immunity to smallpox straddling a timeline of the globe from Ancient China to the continent of Europe, from Africa to the New World.
