Edward Jenner humans a cowpox vaccine against smallpox. For example, Dorset farmer Benjamin Jesty successfully vaccinated and presumably induced immunity with cowpox in his wife and two children during a smallpox epidemic in 1774, but it was not until Jenner's work that the procedure became widely understood. Jenner may have been aware of Jesty's procedures and success. A similar observation had also been made in France by Jacques Antoine Rabaut-Pommier in 1780. Noting the common observation that milkmaids were generally immune to smallpox, Jenner postulated that the pus in the blisters that milkmaids received from cowpox (a disease similar to smallpox, but
Greg Jenner Phone Age" in which he described how routines and habits today had their genesis in the past as well as highlighting contrasts in every day routines through the ages. Jenner has written for "GQ" magazine and has appeared as a guest on "Richard Herring's interview podcasts" Jenner has appeared as a guest on the "Art Detective" podcast. Jenner appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme "Great Lives" discussing Gene Kelly. He has appeared more than once as a guest on "QI" spin-off podcast "No Such Thing as a Fish". Jenner has appeared as a guest on the Simon Mayo and