David Gleich
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Purdue CS. I like matrices, graphs, networks, tensors if they fit, energy efficient stuff, Julia (I’m ex-Matlab), Laura (my wife), data, clean air, 3D printing, vaccines (especially for kids), cooking, hiking, skiing. I’m quiet so I don’t say too much.
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![It is unlikely that Jenner was the first person to inoculate cowpox. Claims were later
made on behalf of those who were said to have priority. Particular attention was
paid to Benjamin Jesty, a Dorsetshire farmer, who is reliably believe to have inocu-
lated his wife and family with cowpox in 1774 [2]. However, all these early claims
came to light only after Jenner published in Inquiry, and so had no influence on the
theory or practice of medicine.
On May 14, 1796, Jenner took material from a lesion on the hand of Sarah
Nelmes (Fig. 1), who had become infected from her master’s cows, and inoculated
two sites on the arm of 8-year-old James Phipps. The lesions developed in about a
week, Phipps had some slight indisposition, but recovered uneventfully. Jenner
variolated him on July 1, but “no disease followed.” At this stage, Jenner submitted
his work to the Royal Society for the publication. They declined and suggested that
he need more information [5]. Jenner collected more epidemiological basis of his
claims. He published his results in a monograph at his own expense. Generally
referred to as the Inquiry, its full title (An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the
Variola Vaccinae) gave no indication of what particular “effects” were described.
He invented a Latin name for cowpox, variolae vaccinae (smallpox of the cow),
and illustrated the monograph with four hand-coloured engravings which showed
the hand of Sarah Nelmes and vaccinated lesions on the arms of three patients. At
first, the terms “cowpox inoculation” and “vaccine inoculation” were to be used to
describe the process, but these soon gave way to vaccination.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73aicoale2mqwrap63rdzwep/bafkreidnpgwwy3b4llcdqq6u6fd5zrf2arsob7obz7ehcwwqxqusgf5ow4@jpeg)
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