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Jul 14, 2021 · Fast-forward to 1985 when microbiologist Patrick Pead, on holiday in Dorset, picked up a booklet in a Worth Matravers village shop entitled Benjamin Jesty: The First Vaccinator.
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 cause...
Feb 13, 2022 · Jesty reproached his accusers, describing them as worse brutes than cows. Despite the hostility, Jesty continued his civic duties and tried to live a quiet life as he waited for the furor to...
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
The second half of the volume begins with the rediscovery of the ‘long-lost’ oil portrait of Benjamin Jesty. Painted in London during 1805, it vanished in the late 19 th century until found in South Africa by the author in 2004 after a protracted ‘detective’ investigation.
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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...
