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
Brianne Jenner a former Calgary Inferno defenseman, in Canada. Brianne Jenner Brianne Alexandra Jenner (born May 4, 1991) is a Canadian ice hockey player and a member of Canada's national women's hockey team. She made her debut for the team at the 2010 Four Nations Cup and won a gold medal. She is also a member of the Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey program. In high school, Jenner was the captain of the Appleby College hockey team. Before playing with Cornell, Jenner played with the PWHL's Mississauga Chiefs. She was also the captain of Team Ontario Red at the 2008 National