Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-11 | Page 5 | Esty's Claim to Jenner's Discovery

ESTY'S STY'S TYs CLAIM TO JENNERS JENNER'S DISCOVERY I The IThe late Mr 11 C. C Jesty magistrate of Antwerp Weymouth brother of M. M A A. Testy who sends the following extracts held ld documents relating to B. B Jesty's disc discovery of v vaccination the he following words are copied from froma a as gravestone In Worth Matravers 1 churchyard Sacred Sacred to the memory of or Benj Benjamin Jesty ty of who departed this April 16 1 1816 aged 79 19 years Heas Ho lie wag as aa horn born at in this coun- coun Yf r. and was an upright honest Man P Particularly noted for having been the thet t person known that introduced the e Cow Cosy Pox by Inoculation and who from rom om his great at strength of mind made he Experiment from the Cow on his Wife and two Sons in the Year Tear 1714 1774 The he following Is an extract from an W 1 1 Publication Dr Edward Edard Jenner made his first on the boy James Phipps hipps on 1 May 1796 who was then 8 years Id ld This after was two twenty-two years after I B Benjamin Jesty had introduced Cow dow Pox ox by inoculation London London Standard Stand Stand- ard ff