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Giacomo Pylarini

Field	Value
name	Giacomo Pylarini
native_name	Ιάκωβος Πυλαρινός
image	Giacomo Pylarini.jpg
caption	Giacomo Pylarini
birth_date	1659
birth_place	Lixouri, Cefalonia
death_date	1718
death_place	Padua
nationality	Greek
field	medicine
known_for	Inoculation

Giacomo Pylarini or Jacobus Pylarinus or Iacob Pylarino (Greek: Ιάκωβος Πυλαρινός; 1659–1718) was a Greek physician and consul for the republic of Venice in Smyrna. In 1715 he became the first person to have an account of the practice of inoculation published by the Royal Society.

He studied law and then medicine at the University of Padua before qualifying as a physician. He travelled to different parts of Asia and Africa and practised both at Smyrna and Constantinople. In Moscow he was appointed physician to the Russian Tsar Peter the Great.

He returned to Smyrna for the second time and resided there as the Venetian Consul as well as practising physician.

Together with another Greek doctor called Emmanuel Timoni, he introduced variolation to Western Europe through their writing from Constantinople.

References

(2009). "Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences".
(Aug 2003). "Emmanuel Timonis, Jacobus Pylarinus and inoculation". Journal of Medical Biography.
"[https://books.google.com/books?id=iOg_AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22jacob+pylarini%22&pg=PA207 A New and safe Method of communicating the Small-pox by Inoculation, lately invented and brought into use. By Jacob Pylarini"] (translated and abridged from the Latin), 1809.
Pylarinum, Jacobum. (1714). "Nova et tuta variolas excitandi per transplantationem methodus, nuper inventa et in usum tracta". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Jacalyn Duffin. (2010). "History of Medicine, Second Edition: A Scandalously Short Introduction". University of Toronto Press.

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