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
Boone Jenner Jenner to a three-year entry-level contract. Jenner scored his first and second NHL goals on October 17, 2013 against Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens. Jenner's uncle Billy Carroll is a four-time Stanley Cup winner, winning three times with the New York Islanders and once with the Edmonton Oilers. Jenner's oldest brother Leo played five seasons with the OHL's Plymouth Whalers and played hockey for Acadia University. As well, his cousin Marcus Carroll (Carroll's son) played five OHL seasons for the Owen Sound Attack and 2 seasons with the ECHL Utah Grizzlies. Boone Jenner Boone Jenner (born June 15, 1993)