Emmanuel Timoni

Emmanuel Timoni
Εμμανουήλ Τιμόνης
Born1669
Chios
Died1718/1720
Known forInoculation
Scientific career
Fieldsmedicine

Emmanuel Timoni or Emanuel Timonius (Greek: 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]

  1. ^ a b Eriksen, Anne (2020). "Smallpox inoculation: Translation, transference and transformation". Palgrave Communications. 6. doi:10.1057/s41599-020-0431-6. hdl:10852/77887. S2CID 214633073.
  2. ^ "Smallpox and the Origins of Immunisation".
  3. ^ Huth, E. (2006). "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. doi:10.1177/014107680609900521. PMC 1457746. PMID 16672762.
  4. ^ 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. doi:10.14744/etd.2020.82856. S2CID 226768356.