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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...
Sep 4, 2018 · Acting on little more than sparse observations, Jenner decided to extract a small sample of Sarah’s pus and inject it into the arm of a young boy named James Phipps. To everyone’s...
Nov 29, 2020 · James Phipps, first to be vaccinated against smallpox by Edward Jenner. Harold Ellis View all authors and affiliations. Volume 31, Issue 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750458920950165. Contents. PDF / ePub. More. Provenance and Peer review: Commissioned; Accepted for publication 23 July 2020.
Apr 25, 2019 · 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. Six weeks later, Jenner inoculated young James with smallpox matter and the boy showed no signs of the disease.
