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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 - BBC News. 14 July 2021. Wellcome Collection. Edward Jenner is credited with developing the first vaccine. More than 250 years before the...
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.
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 20, 2003 · 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.
Share. Tweet. Commonly hailed as a discovery or a ‘medical breakthrough', vaccination against smallpox with cowpox exudate was a development of variolation i.e. inoculation with live smallpox matter - a technique popularised amongst the gentry in the early eighteenth century by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who had observed the procedure in ...
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