THE FIRST VACCINATORS.
Although vaccination is indissolubly linked with the name of Jenner, there is ample evidence that it was practised by farmers and others in the rural districts of England Jong before his day. It was common knowledge among these people that an attack of cowpo-x immunised the sufferer against .smallpox, and it was quite usual for farm workers to infect themselves and their children with the former complaint to protect them against the latter. Indeed, twenty-two years before Dr. Jenner made hie first vaccination, a farmer named Benjamin Jesty, of D'ownshay. openly advocated the practice; but, not being a medical man, he was laughed dt for his pains.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 9
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