Benjamin Jesty (Q67173289)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
portrait (Q134307)
artist:
Michael William Sharp (Q12068842)
collection:
Wellcome Collection (Q7981191)
location:
Wellcome Collection (Q7981191)
main subject:
Benjamin Jesty (Q257281)
depicts:
Benjamin Jesty (Q257281)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Art UK artwork ID:
benjamin-jesty-126236
catalog URL: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/cjq79mng
information from the Wellcome Collection catalog
description: <p>Jesty is the first person recorded as having inoculated a person with cowpox matter in order to protect against smallpox--the procedure subsequently known as vaccination. He carried out this procedure on his wife and sons in Dorset in 1774, some twenty years before Edward Jenner carried out the same operation independently in Gloucestershire</p>
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