Cowpox children. In 1796, British medical practitioner Edward Jenner tested the theory that cowpox could protect someone from being infected by smallpox. Although cowpox originates on the udder of cows, Jenner took his sample from a milkmaid, Sarah Nelmes. Jenner extracted the pus of one of the lesions formed by cowpox on Nelmes to another individual who never had smallpox, James Phipps. He eventually developed a scab and fever that was manageable. Approximately six weeks later, Jenner then introduced an active sample of the smallpox virus into Phipps to test the theory. After being observed for an extended amount of time,
Jenner Academy of the Arts 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 the school's atmosphere deteriorated after the October 1992 shooting of