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Sep 29, 2020 · Smallpox used to kill millions. But a chance discovery led to the first vaccine, and a transformation in human health. Smallpox was a terrible disease. “Your body would ache, you’d have high ...
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 · 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 of ...
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 ...
The 1800s. In 1872, despite enduring a stroke and the death of 2 of his daughters to typhoid, Louis Pasteur creates the first laboratory-produced vaccine: the vaccine for fowl cholera in chickens. In 1885, Louis Pasteur successfully prevents rabies through post-exposure vaccination. The treatment is controversial.
Benjamin Jesty was a man of the country. He fitted the rural pattern. He had been born on Upbury farm and as a child ran around the byres and stables as early as he could toddle. He particularly liked the lowing of the cows and they, in turn, seemed to like the toddler who ran between their legs and brought them handfuls of oats.
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Sep 11, 2011 · Jenner was preceded nearly a quarter of a century before by the Dorset farmer Benjamin Jesty who vaccinated his wife Elizabeth and two sons, Robert and Benjamin, in the spring of 1774. Jesty was born in the village of Yetminster, near Sherborne in the north of the county. He became a dairy farmer and was a member of the Yetminster Vestry.
