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Sep 29, 2020 · During a smallpox epidemic in the west of England in 1774, farmer Benjamin Jesty decided to try something. He scratched some pus from cowpox lesions on the udders of a cow into the skin of his...
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 .
Jul 14, 2021 · Learn how a Dorset dairy farmer invented the first vaccine against smallpox in 1774, decades before Edward Jenner. Discover how his portrait was rediscovered and his story was reclaimed by a microbiologist.
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Dec 23, 2006 · Benjamin Jesty: the first vaccinator revealed. 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.
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Benjamin Jesty is an English physician who in 1796 tested his hypothesis that infection with cowpox could protect against smallpox. He was the first person to be vaccinated against smallpox by Edward Jenner, who later coined the term "vaccine". Learn more about the history of smallpox vaccination and other life-saving jabs from the WHO Newsroom.
Dec 20, 2003 · Benjamin Jesty was the epitome of many farmers at the time of George III. He was intelligent, prosperous, and a pillar of the local community. These were revolutionary days in the approach to farming. The enclosure system had led to the new crops such as potatoes being grown on a commercial scale.
Benjamin Jesty was a Dorset farmer who vaccinated his wife and two sons against smallpox with cowpox in 1774. He was a dairy farmer and a member of the Yetminster Vestry. He understood the risks and benefits of variolation, a technique popularised by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. He was not the first to vaccinate, but he was one of the first to use cowpox.
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