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From: "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <>
Subject: RE: [DK] Vaccination
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:57:34 -0400
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20060429071416.01ce3f20@pop.earthlink.net>


True, and at least some historians suspect Jenner must have been aware of
Jesty's work. But Jesty and Plett don't get the recognition because their work
wasn't a turning point in the history of medicine. Jenner gets the credit
because, as a practicing physician and a member of the Royal Society, he had the
credibilty needed to get his work recognized (and published) and because he
continued his research and championing of the practice of vaccination. There's
something to be said for having an idea and something more to be said for having
an idea and doing something revolutionary with it. :-)

Diana

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rockne Johnson [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 9:16 AM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [DK] Vaccination
>
> It was only last November that I wrote to this list:
>
> "Benjamin Jesty, a farmer in Dorset, England, performed
> vaccinations with
> pus from cows infected with cowpox in 1774, 22 years before the famed
> experiment by Edward Jenner.
>
> "Dutch schoolmaster Peter Plett performed vaccinations in Hasselburg,
> Holstein, in 1791."
>
> Rock
>
>

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