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
Don Jenner Don Jenner Felix Donovan 'Don' Jenner (15 November 1892 – 31 March 1953) was an English cricketer. Jenner was a right-handed batsman who bowled both right-arm medium pace and right-arm off break. He was born at Hastings, Sussex. Jenner made his first-class debut for Sussex County against Nottinghamshire in the 1919 County Championship. He made 27 further first-class appearances for Sussex, the last of which came against Hampshire in the 1921 County Championship. He had modest success during his first-class career, scoring a total of 595 runs at an average of 12.14, with a high score of 55. This was