James Phipps
Male, Deceased Person
1788 – 1853
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Who was James Phipps?
James Phipps was the first person given the cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner. Jenner knew of a local belief that dairy workers who had contracted a relatively mild infection called cowpox were immune to smallpox.
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