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- In March 1770 he married Elizabeth Notley (1740–1824) in Longburton, four miles north-east of Yetminster.
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Jul 14, 2021 · Using pus taken from lesions on a cow's udder, he used a stocking needle to scratch the infected material into the skin of his wife and two sons.
When an epidemic of smallpox came to Yetminster in 1774, Jesty decided to try to give his wife Elizabeth and two eldest sons immunity by infecting them with cowpox. He took his family to a cow at a farm in nearby Chetnole that had the disease, and using a darning needle, transferred pustular material from the cow by scratching their arms.
Jul 14, 2021 · But his wife became very ill and, although she eventually recovered, Jesty was vilified.
Dec 20, 2003 · Determined to find a safe way to protect his family, Jesty took his wife and two sons to a herd of cows that he knew had symptoms of cowpox. These cattle were owned by Mr Elford, and they were grazing near the hamlet of Chetnole.
- Patrick J Pead
- 2003
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.
Feb 13, 2022 · One spring day in 1774, Jesty set out with his wife, Mary, and their two toddlers, to a neighboring farm in Chetnole in search of a suitably cowpox-infected cow.
He inoculated his wife and two sons with cowpox, using a lancet to scratch the skin and introduce the virus. A few weeks later, he exposed them to smallpox by bringing a contaminated blanket into their home.
