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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 . The notion that those people infected with cowpox, a relatively mild disease, were subsequently protected against smallpox ...
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 ...
Jul 14, 2021 · Learn how a Dorset dairy farmer named Benjamin Jesty invented the first vaccine against smallpox in 1774, decades before Edward Jenner. Discover how his discovery was forgotten and how a modern researcher uncovered his story and his portrait.
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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 ...
Benjamin Jesty was a farmer who tested his hypothesis that infection with cowpox could protect against smallpox in 1774. He was one of the pioneers of vaccination, along with Edward Jenner and others, who developed the first vaccines against deadly diseases.
Dec 23, 2006 · This year the UK's Wellcome Trust bought the only oil painting of the first vaccinator, Benjamin Jesty. This was noteworthy because the portrait was thought to be lost and only a few relations of the previous owner knew of its existence until 2004. Jesty was a farmer who lived in the village of Yetminster in North Dorset, UK. He was convinced of the folk tale that milkmaids who contracted ...
Dec 20, 2003 · Benjamin Jesty ( figure 1 ), a tenant farmer, lived in a substantial stone farmhouse named Upbury ( figure 2 ), next to St Andrew's Church in the centre of Yetminster village, near Sherborne, UK. In 1774, he was aged 37 years and had been married for 4 years to Elizabeth, 35 years; they had two sons, Robert (3 years), Benjamin (2 years), and a ...
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