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Concise History of Immunology - Columbia University

immunity. In 1774, Benjamin Jesty, a farmer, inoculated his wife with the vaccinia virus obtained from “farmer Elford of Chittenhall, near Yetminster.” In 1796, Jenner inoculated James Phipps with material obtained from a cowpox lesion that appeared on the hand of a dairymaid (Fig. 1).

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