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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 .
14 de jul. de 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...
29 de sept. de 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...
Si bien Jenner ha recibido todo el mérito de la comunidad científica por el descubrimiento de la vacuna antivariólica, existen antecedentes de inoculación antes de las investigaciones de Jenner. En la lápida funeraria de Benjamin Jesty se puede leer “…partió de esta vida el 16 de abril 1816 a la edad de 79 años.
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Benjamin Jesty: The unsung hero of vaccination. 13 July 2021. Wellcome Collection. Edward Jenner is credited with developing the first vaccine. More than 250 years before the coronavirus...
23 de dic. de 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. He found out that people infected with cowpox were immune to smallpox. ©Credits.
