Giacomo Pylarini

Venetian physician and consul

1659 CE to 1718 CE

Giacomo Pylarini (Jacob) (born 1659 – 1718) was a Venetian physician and consul for the republic of Venice in Smyrna who in 1701 on the children of the English ambassador to Constantinople, gave the first smallpox inoculation outside of Turkey.

This early immunization effort is called "variolation".

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Location: Matrei am Brenner Tirol Austria
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