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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. ... A History of Surgery.-- Join one million Future fans by liking us on Facebook, ...
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 was not an uncommon observation with country ...
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Jul 14, 2021 · 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 ...
Brief mention is made of ‘a farmer named Jesty’. This was Benjamin Jesty 4 of Yetminster in Dorset who devised and performed cowpox vaccinations against smallpox at Chetnole, near Yetminster in 1774. Two of his subjects were later challenged with smallpox by variolation and were unaffected. There has been growing acceptance of Jesty's ...
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In 1774, Benjamin Jesty makes a breakthrough. Testing his hypothesis that infection with cowpox – a bovine virus which can spread to humans – could protect a person from smallpox Dr Edward Jenner created the world's first successful vaccine.
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 ...
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