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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 · He had nearly 30 years to ponder cowpox and smallpox before testing his theory in 1796 by vaccinating young James Phipps. "The idea that cowpox could prevent smallpox infection came from Fewster's ...
James Phipps was a milkmaid who in 1796 received the first vaccine against smallpox from Dr Edward Jenner, who had observed the practice of variolation in Asia and Africa. He was one of the key components of the worldwide smallpox eradication effort that led to the permanent reduction of the disease to zero cases by 1980.
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Sep 4, 2018 · September 4, 2018. An artistic rendering of Edward Jenner vaccinating eight-year-old James Phipps in 1796. Pan American Health Organization / flickr. In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner had a ...
Nov 29, 2020 · 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. On the seventh day following this procedure, the boy complained of discomfort in the axilla; on the ...
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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 ...
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. Over the following days, James developed a fever, but soon became well again. When Jenner then injected the boy with the more dangerous smallpox, James remained healthy. Two ...
