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James Phipps - Wikipedia James Phipps (1788 – 1853) was the first person given the experimental cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner [1] Jenner knew of a local belief that dairy workers who had contracted a relatively mild infection called cowpox were immune to smallpox, and successfully tested his theory on the 8-years-old James Phipps on 17 May 1796
Smallpox and the story of vaccination - Science Museum In 1796 he took some matter from a cowpox pustule on the hand of milkmaid Sarah Nelmes and injected it into the arm of a young boy called James Phipps James developed a scab and experienced some soreness and mild fever for a day Six weeks later, Jenner inoculated young James with smallpox matter and the boy showed no signs of the disease
History of smallpox vaccination Having heard of local beliefs and practices in rural communities that cowpox protected against smallpox, Dr Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps with matter from a cowpox sore on the hand of Sarah Nelmes, a local milkmaid
James Phipps - Science Museum Group Collection James Phipps, the son of a poor landless labourer, was the first person to be vaccinated by Edward Jenner On 14 May 1796, Jenner cut into the skin of the 8-year-old boy and infected him with matter from a cowpox sore
The chilling experiment which created the first vaccine - BBC A potentially fatal experiment On a child He took some pus from cowpox lesions on the hands of a young milkmaid, Sarah Nelms, and scratched it into the skin of eight-year old James Phipps
Note on James Phipps - University of Louisville James Phipps (1788 – 1853) James Phipps was the first subject who received arm to arm transfer of cowpox vaccine and thus is a historical character in the annals of medicine and science, not unlike Joseph Meister, the first subject successfully vaccinated for rabies
James Phipps, We Salute You - The Medicine Maker James Phipps’ bravery and contribution was acknowledged and rewarded by Jenner with a lease-free cottage in which he could raise his small, smallpox-free family
Smallpox: Vaccination - National Library of Medicine Recognizing that dairymaids infected with cowpox were immune to small-pox, Jenner deliberately infected James Phipps, an eight year old boy, with cowpox in 1796 He then exposed Phipps to smallpox–which Phipps failed to contract