360What happened in 1796?
6 moments from 1796 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- History · 14 May 1796
Edward Jenner tests the first vaccine
On 14 May 1796, the English doctor Edward Jenner infected a boy with mild cowpox and later showed he was protected from smallpox. It was the first vaccine. Vaccination spread worldwide, and in 1980 smallpox, which had killed hundreds of millions of people, became the first human disease ever eradicated.
- On this day · 14 May 1796
Edward Jenner gives the first vaccination
On 14 May 1796, the English doctor Edward Jenner inoculated eight-year-old James Phipps with material from a cowpox sore. When later exposed to smallpox, the boy did not fall ill. Jenner's discovery was the first vaccine, and led eventually to the eradication of smallpox.
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