James Phipps
English child given cowpox vaccine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the Captain-General of the Royal African Company, see James Phipps of Cape Coast Castle.
For other uses, see Jim Phipps (disambiguation).
James Phipps (1788 – 1853) was the first person given the experimental cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner.[1] 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.[2]