Milk Made – Gloucestershire

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Milk Made

This clever little design is another of my favourites, with the two milk bottles making up the hollows of the letter M. Clever, isn’t it? You’ll find this bottle and its pasteurised but un-homogenised farm fresh milk in the little village of Ham in Berkley, Gloucestershire. Milk Made used to offer a 1 litre or 500-millilitre bottle and had a selection of milkshakes available to add.

Amongst other things, nearby Berkley is famous for being the birthplace of Dr Edward Jenner, the pioneer of the smallpox vaccine. Jenner worked as the local doctor in Berkley after he had finished his training in London. In 1796 Jenner realised that milkmaids appeared to have immunity to the dreaded Smallpox. He suggested that pus in the blisters of Cowpox (a similar disease but with less severe results) may protect the milkmaids from Smallpox. On the 14th of May 1796, Jenner scrapped pus from the blisters of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid infected with Cowpox and inoculated eight-year-old James Phipps in both arms. This process produced in Phipps a mild fever and had the benefit of providing him with immunity to Smallpox. With success, Jenner repeated his experiment with a further twenty-three subjects, including his eleven-month-old son. Dr Edward Jenner proved that people who had been infected with Cowpox were immune to Smallpox, and vaccinations were born.

If you were wondering, the cow that infected Sarah Nelmes was called Blossom.

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