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Edward Jenner

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Edward Jenner

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Jenner inoculates James Phipps with cowpox

đź“… 14 Mei 1796

Jenner transferred material from milkmaid Sarah Nelmes’s cowpox lesion to the eight-year-old boy.

A milkmaid’s infection informs vaccination

đź“… 14 Mei 1796

Sarah Nelmes supplied the cowpox material used in the experiment; she should be included in the account of the procedure.

Cowpox is tested as smallpox protection

đź“… 14 Mei 1796

The date marks Phipps’s cowpox inoculation, not the later challenge that tested whether he was protected.

Vaccination builds on older inoculation traditions

đź“… 14 Mei 1796

The experiment helped develop a distinct smallpox vaccine; variolation had already been practiced in Asia and parts of Africa.