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- 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 death in the 18th century. Most people became infected during their lifetimes, and about 30% of those infected died.
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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.
Benjamin Jesty by Michael William Sharp, 1805. 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.
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.
Dec 20, 2003 · Conventional wisdom holds that Edward Jenner discovered vaccination when he transferred cowpox material from the hand of Sarah Nelmes to the arm of James Phipps on May 14, 1796. In fact, the procedure had been devised and used earlier by another person—Benjamin Jesty.
- Patrick J Pead
- 2003
Benjamin Jesty was a pioneering figure in the field of vaccination, whose work laid the foundations for modern immunology. Born in Yetminster, Dorset, England in 1736, Jesty was a farmer by trade, but he had an inquisitive mind and was interested in scientific developments of his time.
I purchased a copy and found that it concerned a dairy farmer named Benjamin Jesty who originated from Yetminster in North Dorset. I read that Mr Jesty had used cowpox to protect his wife and two sons against smallpox in the year 1774; this being a full 22 years before Jenner.
Benjamin Jesty has been described as ‘the man history forgot’. Spanning the late 18th and early 19th centuries, this book tells the story of the ingenious Dorset farmer who used cowpox as a vaccine to protect his family against the dreaded disease of smallpox in 1774.
