BENJAMIN JESTY
the world's first true vaccinator 1774
Benjamin Jesty : The Grandfather of Vaccination -- the definitive biography
The reference biography contains more than 650 associated references
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The list below is only a small selection of bibliography associated with the history of Benjamin Jesty
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MONOGRAPH
Wallace, M. The First Vaccinator. Wareham and Swanage: Anglebury-Bartlett, 1981
(now a little out of date)
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ASSOCIATED PUBLICATIONS
Pead, P J, The Lancet, 2003, vol 362, pp 2104 - 2109
Benjamin Jesty: new light in the dawn of vaccination
Pead, Patrick J, The Times, 2003, 13th December
Smallpox Pioneer
Pead, Patrick J, Wellcome History, 2005, Issue 30, p7
The First Vaccinator's ‘Lost’ Portrait is Found
Pead, P J, The Lancet, 2006, vol 368, p 2202.
The First Vaccinator Revealed
Pead, Patrick J, The Edward Jenner Museum Newsletter, 2008, No. 3 pp 2 – 3
The Interview
Pead, P J, Immunology News, 2010, Issue 17, pp 18 – 21
Benjamin Jesty: The First Pioneer of Vaccination
(with an editorial by Daniel Price on page 3)
Pead, Patrick J, Proceedings of the Somerset and Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 2010, vol 131, pp 27 - 28
Dr Edward Jenner and Vaccination: a Dorset Connection?
Pead, Patrick J, Medical Sciences Historical Society Newsletter, 2010, No 42, p7
Benjamin Jesty: Dorset’s vaccination pioneer.
Pead, Patrick J, The Historian, 2011, No. 110, pp 27 – 29 (by invitation)
Benjamin Jesty: Grandfather of Vaccination
Article in Dorset Year Book 2013 Society of Dorset Men
Pead, Patrick J. J R Soc Med, 2014, 107, No 1, pp 6 -7.
The origins of vaccination: no inoculation, no vaccination
Pead, Patrick J. Presentation at the 2011 Congress of the British Society for the History of Medicine at the University of Surrey. Edward Jenner – a Dorset connection?
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PUBLISHED ARTICLES BY OTHERS
Wellcome Trust Press Release, 2006, 27th June
Face of the Pioneer of the Smallpox Vaccination Revealed
Wellcome Trust News Release, 2006, 22nd September
“Great strength of mind” in a Rediscovered Portrait
Medical Sciences Historical Society Newsletter, 2006, No. 35, p 8
Portrait of Benjamin Jesty acquired by the Wellcome Library
Wellcome News 2006, Issue 48, October, p7
Did Jesty Trump Jenner?
Wellcome Science 2006, Issue 4, November p35
Jesty Trumps Jenner
Wellcome Library Annual Review, 2006, pp 6 -7
Return of the Farmer
Wellcome Library Newsletter, 2006, 6th August
New Acquisition – Jesty Portrait
Dorset Life, 2006, No 328, p 40 Jesty memorial restored
Vaccines, 5th edition, Plotkin SA, Orenstein WA & Offit PA (editors)
pub Saunders, Philadelphia PA, 2008.
My photograph of the gravestone was requested and used as part of the frontispiece in this prestigious publication with notes on Jesty (referenced) in Chapter 1.
Dorset Echo, 2008, 14th January
Painting joy for pioneer’s family
Clinical Infectious Diseases , 2009, vol 48, No.4
The Jesty portrait formed the front cover of this journal
with text by Professor Sam Katz of Duke University, NC on Contents page
Professor Philip Strange, The Marshwood Vale Magazine, 2009, December
Dorset Pioneer
Dorset Echo, 2009, 10th October
Portrait of smallpox vaccine pioneer goes on show in Dorchester
Dorset Echo, 2009, 30th October
Benjamin’s happy return to Dorset
Schupbach W. Wellcome Library, 2010, 27th October
Jesty in Dorchester: return of the native
Dorset, 2010, January, pp 30 –31
Jesty’s homecoming
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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS BY OTHERS
Pearson G et al. Report of The Original Vaccine Pock Institution. 1805; Edin Med Surg J, Vol 1, No. 4: pp 513 – 514.
Jenner, G C. The evidence at large, as laid before the committee of the House of Commons, respecting Dr Jenner’s discovery of vaccine inoculation, together with the debate: and some observations on the contravening evidence. London: J Murray, 1805.
Southey, C C. The Life of the Rev Andrew Bell. London: John Murray, 1844.
Haviland, A. The proto-martyr to vaccination. Lancet, 1862; Vol 2: p 291.
Crookshank, E M. History and Pathology of Vaccination. London: H K Lewis, 1889.
Bett W R. ‘Benjamin Jesty: A Forerunner of Jenner’ in St Bartholomew’s Hospital Journal (1929) pp 88 – 89.
O’Malley J. ‘The Original Vaccine Inoculator’ in A Medical Bulletin, Vol II No.4. Dagenham: May and Baker 1954.
Hammarsten J F, Tattersall W and Hammarsten J E. ‘Who discovered smallpox vaccination? Edward Jenner or Benjamin Jesty?’ in Trans Am Clin Climatol Ass, vol 90 (1979) pp 44 – 55.
Hart F D. ‘Benjamin Jesty, farmer vaccinator’ in The British Journal of Clinical Practice, vol 42 No. 1 (1988) pp 33 – 34.
McCrae, T. Benjamin Jesty: a pre-Jennerian vaccinator. Johns Hopkins Hosp Bull, 1900; Vol 11: pp 42 – 44.Kilpatrick, D C. Farmer Jesty and the discovery of vaccination. 1993; J Clin Path, Vol 46: p 287.
Horton, G C. Myths in medicine. Br Med J, 1995; Vol. 310: p 62.
Gross, C P, and Sepkowitz, K A. The myth of the medical breakthrough: smallpox, vaccination, and Jenner reconsidered. Int J Infect Dis, 1998; Vol 3: pp 54 – 60.
Hunt J A. ‘Benjamin Jesty – A True Pioneer’ in The Pharmaceutical Journal, vol 261 (1998) pp 978 – 981.
Jesty R and Williams G. ‘Who invented vaccination?’ in the Malta Medical Journal, vol 23 issue 2 (2011) pp 29 – 32.
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