Although production methods have become more sanitary, the vaccine itself has changed little since Edward Jenner scraped it from sores on the hand of a cowpox-infected dairymaid.
Lady Diana further astonished Algiers by practicing the dairymaid chore she had learned on her farm in Bognor, Englandshe milked the cow.
Ellen was a dairymaid employed by the Rathmore Creamery in County Kerry.