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Jesty
Jesty is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Benjamin Jesty (1736–1816), farmer who experimented with cowpox to immunise against smallpox *Chris Jesty (born 1942/43), British writer and cartographer * Trevor Jesty Trevor Edward Jesty (born 2 June 1948 at ESPN CricInfo) is an English former (born 1948), cricketer * Thomas Jesty (born 1991), chorister {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Jesty
Chris Jesty (born 1942) is a British author and cartographer who revised Alfred Wainwright's ''Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells'' to produce the second edition (2005–2009) of the books, which were originally published in 1955–1966. He used GPS to survey all the routes and the work involved 3,000 hand-drawn changes in the first volume alone, reflecting changes such as walls having fallen down or a quarry being opened on the line of a footpath, and adding information such as car parking. Jesty had earlier lived in Dolgellau, north Wales, and in the 1970s produced and published a panorama of the view from Snowdon, available as a single sheet or in four sections. In 1978 he published a panorama of the view from Scafell Pike with illustrations by Wainwright. He then moved to Bridport in Dorset, where he wrote several books about that area before moving to Kendal in Cumbria. In 1979, he wrote to Wainwright offering to update the guides, but Wainwright replied that he did no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Jesty
Benjamin Jesty (c. 1736 – 16 April 1816) was a farmer at Yetminster in Dorset, England, notable for his early experiment in artificial induction of immunity, inducing immunity against smallpox using cowpox. The notion that those people infected with cowpox, a relatively mild disease, were subsequently protected against smallpox was not an uncommon observation with country folk in the late 18th century, but Jesty was one of the first to intentionally administer the less virulent virus. He was one of the six English, Danish and German people who reportedly administered cowpox to Artificial induction of immunity, artificially induce immunity against smallpox from 1770 to 1791; only Jobst Bose of Göttingen, Germany with his 1769 inoculations pre-dated Jesty's work. Unlike Edward Jenner, a medical doctor who is given broad credit for developing the smallpox vaccine in 1796, Jesty did not publicise his findings made some twenty years earlier in 1774. Early life Jesty was born i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
