Emmanuel Timoni Explained
| Emmanuel Timoni |
| Native Name: | Εμμανουήλ Τιμόνης |
| Birth Date: | 1669 |
| Birth Place: | Chios |
| Death Date: | 1718/1720 |
| Field: | medicine |
| Known For: | Inoculation |
Emmanuel Timoni or Emanuel Timonius (el|Εμμανουήλ Τιμόνης; 1669-1718/1720) was an Ottoman Greek physician from Chios. His father was a dragoman at the Sultan's court.[1] He studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Oxford and the University of Padua. After his studies he became a physician at the Sultan's court in Constantinople.[1]
Timoni and Giacomo Pylarini were responsible for introducing the idea of variolation to the United Kingdom when they independently wrote letters on the subject to the Royal Society.[2] [3] [4]
External links
- https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-305320318/
Notes and References
- Smallpox inoculation: Translation, transference and transformation . 10.1057/s41599-020-0431-6 . 2020 . Eriksen . Anne . Palgrave Communications . 6 . 214633073 . 10852/77887 . free .
- Web site: Smallpox and the Origins of Immunisation .
- 1457746 . 2006 . Huth . E. . Quantitative evidence for judgments on the efficacy of inoculation for the prevention of smallpox: England and New England in the 1700s . Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine . 99 . 5 . 262–266 . 10.1177/014107680609900521 . 16672762 .
- Kyrkoudis . Theodoros . 2020 . Vaccination of the ethnic Greeks (Rums) against smallpox in the Ottoman Empire: Emmanuel Timonis and Jacobus Pylarinos as precursors of Edward Jenner . Erciyes Medical Journal . 10.14744/etd.2020.82856. 226768356 . free .
