Giacomo Pylarini
Giacomo Pylarini or Jacobus Pylarinus or Iacob Pylarino (Greek: Ιάκωβος Πυλαρινός; 1659–1718)[1][2] 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.[3][4]
Giacomo Pylarini | |
|---|---|
| Ιάκωβος Πυλαρινός | |
| Born | 1659 |
| Died | 1718 |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Known for | Inoculation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | medicine |
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.
He, together with another Greek doctor called Emmanuel Timoni, have introduced the variolation to Western Europe through their writing from Constantinople.[5]
References
- Ben-Menahem, Ari (2009). "The Clockwork Universe". Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. pp. 911–1731. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-68832-7_6. ISBN 978-3-540-68831-0.
- Poulakou-Rebelakou, Effie; Lascaratos, John (Aug 2003). "Emmanuel Timonis, Jacobus Pylarinus and inoculation". Journal of Medical Biography. 11 (3): 181–182. doi:10.1177/096777200301100316. PMID 12870046. S2CID 43779117.
- "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. 29 (347): 393–399. doi:10.1098/rstl.1714.0047. S2CID 186209354.
- Jacalyn Duffin (2010). History of Medicine, Second Edition: A Scandalously Short Introduction. University of Toronto Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-0802095565.