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James Phipps (1788 – 1853) was the first person given the experimental cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner. [1] 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.
Learn how smallpox was eradicated from the world, the first and only human disease to be eliminated. Discover the role of James Phipps, the first person to be vaccinated with cowpox by Edward Jenner in 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.
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Feb 9, 2010 · James Phipps was an eight-year-old boy who received the first smallpox vaccine from Edward Jenner, an English doctor, on May 14, 1796. The vaccine was made from cowpox, a mild disease that protected people from smallpox, a deadly infection.
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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.
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Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. 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.
In May 1796, English physician Edward Jenner expands on this discovery and inoculates 8-year-old James Phipps with matter collected from a cowpox sore on the hand of a milkmaid. Despite suffering a local reaction and feeling unwell for several days, Phipps made a full recovery.
