It's home to two colleges, Keene State College and Antioch University New England, and the annual Keene Music Festival, when the hippie-music vibe takes over most of this town of 24,000. For years, it was also home to the Pumpkin Festival, which set two world records for most simultaneously lit jack-o'-lanterns.
We begin our history of vaccines and immunization with the story of Edward Jenner, a country doctor living in Berkeley (Gloucestershire), England, who in 1796 performed the worldâs first vaccination. 4 Taking pus from a cowpox lesion on a milkmaidâs hand, Jenner inoculated an eight-year-old boy, James Phipps.his paper explores the history of vaccines and immunization, beginning with Edward Jennerâs creation of the worldâs first vaccine for smallpox in the 1790s.
Edward Jenner, an English physician, discovered the smallpox vaccine in 1796. He came upon this discovery by noticing that milkmaids who had the cowpox virus, a less threateni â¦ ng disease, did not catch the dangerous smallpox. Jenner then infected an 8-year-old boy with the cowpox.fter six weeks, he exposed the boy to the smallpox disease and the boy did not show any smallpox related symptoms. Sone fun facts: -Jenner coined the term 'vaccine': 'vaca' means cow in Latin. -Before the vaccine, the death rate of the disease was up to 35%.