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 and Development of Vaccination. As a natural disease, the origin of smallpox can be traced back to the prehistoric culture when it first appeared around 10,000 BC in northeastern Africa.