First sight

But despite the portrait and interrogation by doctors in London, Jesty never received credit for his pioneering work, with all the credit and financial rewards going to Jenner with his many friends in the medical establishment in London who spent considerable time and money refining the technique. Jenner never accepted that he had been preempted over vaccination by Jesty. However, the Jestys freely admitted that they were probably not the first with vaccination, as indicated behind the parish church in the home village of Worth Maltravers. It states that Jesty was " the first person (known) that introduced the In the shadows: Detail of a newly revealed portrait of the physician Benjamin Jesty who carried out vaccination experiments ahead of Jenner. (Photo: Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library.) Cow Pox by inoculation " , thus respecting the fact that this widely known immunity to smallpox may have inspired other anonymous people to the same deed. And at a recent talk about Jesty's newly discovered portrait given by William Schupbach of the Wellcome Library in London at a symposium on the history of medicine, one of the participants, he recounts, mentioned some evidence of similar practices on one of the Greek islands in the eighteenth century, but using goats instead of cows. Had this been fully documented and led anywhere, we could now be talking about caprination rather than vaccination, notes Schupbach. Researchers working in Kenya have taken what are thought to be the first photographs of the critically endangered Ader's duiker antelope in their remaining mainland east-African habitat. The pictures were taken in the Arabuko-Sokoke forest in Kenya by special camera traps which were set up on forest tracks and triggered by heat or movement. The system allows scientists to photograph animals that are seldom seen because they are nocturnal, shy or just very rare. The two researchers, Amrita Neelaantan and Catherine Jackson, spent three months in Kenya. The purpose of the trip was to investigate whether camera traps could be used as a reliable method of counting Ader's duiker. Paignton zoo's head of science, Amy Plowman, said: " We think these pictures could well be the first photos of wild Ader's duiker ever taken. I've seen a few others that have been taken in captivity. It's a very exciting breakthrough — the more we learn about these animals the more we can do to conserve them. " The zoo's conservation …