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James Phipps was the first person to be administered the cow-pox vaccine by Edward Jenner. He was an eight year old boy at the time of being vaccinated. He was subsequently exposed to the small-pox virus a number of times but successfully resisted the infection thus proving the effectiveness of Jenner's vaccination.


He is thus a historic character in the annals of the history of medicine like Joseph Meister who was successfully immunized against rabies by Louis Pasteur. Joseph Meister (c. ...


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James Phipps (531 words)
James Phipps was the first subject who received arm to arm transfer of cowpox vaccine and thus is a historical character in the annals of medicine and science, not unlike Joseph Meister, the first subject successfully vaccinated for rabies.
Phipps was a mourner at Jenner's funeral in 1823.
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James Ray Phipps Arrest/Indictment Press Release (636 words)
James Ray Phipps appeared yesterday in federal court in Birmingham, Alabama, where a United States Magistrate Judge detained him pending a detention hearing set for tomorrow, Thursday, April 20.
Phipps would represent that he would collect a four percent fee for administering “Life Without Debt” and would distribute the remainder of contribution money to the people above them in the pyramid matrix, referred to as “upline” from new recruits.
In fact, Phipps instructed members that contributed by money order to send nine money orders leaving the payee lines blank for processing by “Life Without Debt,” explaining that one money order was for his four percent fee and the other eight money orders were payments for “up-line” members in the “Life Without Debt” matrix.
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