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
Jenner Academy of the Arts or Lincoln Park High School for senior high. Opinion articles: Jenner Academy of the Arts Edward Jenner Elementary Academy of the Arts was a PK-8 school in the Cabrini-Green area of the Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois. A part of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and named after Edward Jenner, it merged into Ogden International School in 2018. In January and April of 1966, black parents boycotted the school in order to remove the white principal, Mildred Chuchut, of Jenner. CPS transferred her to Stowe Elementary school on August 10, 1966 . Don Terry of "The New York Times" wrote that