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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 · Benjamin Jesty: The unsung hero of vaccination. 14 July 2021. Wellcome Collection. Edward Jenner is credited with developing the first vaccine. More than 250 years before the coronavirus...
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Jul 14, 2021 · Learn how a Dorset dairy farmer named Benjamin Jesty invented the first vaccine against smallpox in 1774, decades before Edward Jenner. Discover how his discovery was forgotten and how a modern researcher uncovered his story and his portrait.
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.
- Patrick J Pead
- 2006
Benjamin Jesty was a farmer who tested his hypothesis that infection with cowpox could protect against smallpox in 1774. He was one of the pioneers of vaccination, along with Edward Jenner and others, who developed the first vaccines against deadly diseases.
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.
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