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Cambridge Scholars Publishing Benjamin Jesty, the Grandfather of Vaccination

Name: Benjamin Jesty, the Grandfather of Vaccination
Brand: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Benjamin Jesty has been described as ‘the man history forgot’. Spanning the late 18th and early 19th centuries, this book tells the story of the ingenious Dorset farmer who used cowpox as a vaccine to protect his family against the dreaded disease of smallpox in 1774. This happened 22 years before Dr Edward Jenner used a similar process. The origins of vaccination have always been clouded in controversy. Probing previous accounts flawed by myth or subjectivity, this text sets the record straight. Man’s early attempts at stimulating immunity are rooted in folk wisdom of the distant past. Vaccination was not a ‘discovery’ or a ‘medical breakthrough’, but a development from variolation, substituting cowpox as an inoculum instead of smallpox. Analysing relevant primary sources with an innovative approach, this book reveals the geographical extent of awareness of Jesty’s endeavour in Georgian England, confirms his priority, and seeks to establish his Intellectual Property for the first use of an empirical vaccine. Jenner brought vaccination to the world. His achievement will always take precedence, but the findings of this new research suggest it is now time to honour Benjamin Jesty with the credit he deserves.

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Brand: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 152754382X
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > 1701-1900
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 December 2019
Listed Since: 20 June 2016

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