Benjamin Jesty: new light in the dawn of vaccination.

Offers an article from the department of medical history on the earliest vaccination. Benjamin Jesty as the lesser known architect of the methods despite the conventional belief that Edward Jenner was the inventor; Background on Jesty and his role in the society of the time; Details on the smallpox epidemic of the era; What Jesty did to protect his family from the outbreak; His recording reasonings behind his decision.