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James Phipps (1788 – 1853) was the first person given the experimental cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner. Jenner knew of a local belief that dairy workers who had contracted a relatively mild infection called cowpox were immune to smallpox, and successfully tested his theory on the 8-years-old James Phipps on 17 May 1796.
Feb 1, 2018 · In 1796, he vaccinated a child named James Phipps with pus taken from a cowpox pustule, according to a historical report in 2005 in the journal Baylor University Medical Proceedings.
Having heard of local beliefs and practices in rural communities that cowpox protected against smallpox, Dr Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps with matter from a cowpox sore on the hand of Sarah Nelmes, a local milkmaid.
Feb 9, 2010 · On May 14, 1796, Jenner took fluid from a milkmaid’s cowpox blister and scratched it into the skin of James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy. A single blister rose up on the spot, but James soon...
In 1796 he took some matter from a cowpox pustule on the hand of milkmaid Sarah Nelmes and injected it into the arm of a young boy called James Phipps. James developed a scab and experienced some soreness and mild fever for a day.
On May 14, 1796, using matter from Nelms' lesions, he inoculated an 8-year-old boy, James Phipps. Subsequently, the boy developed mild fever and discomfort in the axillae. Nine days after the procedure he felt cold and had lost his appetite, but on the next day he was much better.
Nov 29, 2020 · We now come to the first, and crucial, experiment. On May 14, 1796, Jenner inoculated, via two small cuts on the arm, an eight-year-old country lad called James Phipps, the son of Jenner’s gardener, with lymph taken from the cowpox vesicles on the fingertip of a dairymaid called Sarah Nelmes.
James Phipps, the son of a poor landless labourer, was the first person to be vaccinated by Edward Jenner. On 14 May 1796, Jenner cut into the skin of the 8-year-old boy and infected him with matter from a cowpox sore.
James Phipps (1788 – 1853) James Phipps was the first subject who received arm to arm transfer of cowpox vaccine and thus is a historical character in the annals of medicine and science, not unlike Joseph Meister, the first subject successfully vaccinated for rabies.
Aug 30, 2004 · Why choose James Phipps? The reasons why Dr. Jenner chose 8-year-old James Phipps could be divided into two lines of thinking: From a scientific standpoint, a suitable experimental subject needed to be healthy and relatively young enough to have not been exposed to cowpox or smallpox.
