James Phipps
✓ Source-basedfallingEnglish child given cowpox vaccine
Lived 1788 to 1853 · aged 65
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James Phipps was the first person given the experimental cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner. 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.
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Lived 1788 to 1853 · aged 65
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