Person Timone; Emanuele (1665 - 1718); physician Timone Emanuele physician Εμμανουήλ Τιμόνης Emmanuele Timonius Timoni 1665 - 1718 Greek Male Chios Island, Greece, Europe 1665 1665 1718 1718

Physician and diplomat Inoculation Medicine Education: Univeristy of Padua; MD; Incorporated at Oxford Career: Travelled throughout the Ottoman Empire; practised in Constantinople; personal physician of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III (1673–1736); Vice-Rector of the University of Padua, Italy (1691); after taking part in the negotiations for the Peace of Carlowitz (1699), he travelled to England with the English representative, William, Lord Paget; returned to Constantinople (1703); described the practice of inoculation against smallpox as practised in the Ottoman Empire in a letter to John Woodward (FRS 1693); committed suicide. Parents: His father was the interpreter to the British Embassy to the Sublime Porte, Constantinople [Istanbul, Turkey] Children: Kokona Timoni, whom he vaccinated in 1722. Pioneer of the variolation method of inoculation . Timone and Jacobus Pylarinos (1659–1718) were precusors to Edward Jenner (FRS 1789), who famously introduced the term "vaccination". He described a method of drawing a blend of smallpox pus mixed with blood, selecting ill children on the 13th day of the appearanc of the rash, piercing with a needle the pustules in the feet of the children. Lorentz Mavilis (1860–1912), poet, and Georgio da Chirico (1888–1978), painter, are descendants from Timone's family. Fellow 30/11/1703 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; Hirsch; Biog Univ Eriksen, A. Smallpox inoculation: translation, transference and transformation. Palgrave Commun 6, 52 (2020) [URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0431-6; last accessed: 28/05/2025] Kyrkoudis T, Tsoucalas G, Thomaidis V, Bakirtzis I, Nalbandi E, Polychronidis A, et al. Vaccination of the Ethnic Greeks (Rums) Against Smallpox in the Ottoman Empire: Emmanuel Timonis and Jacobus Pylarinos as Precursors of Edward Jenner. Erciyes Med J 2021; 43(1): 100–6, [URL: https://jcpres.com/storage/upload/pdfs/EMJ_43_1_100_106.pdf; last accessed: 28/05/2025] References: Raymond Phineas Stearns, 'Fellows of the Royal Society in North Africa and the Levant, 1662-1800' in NR 1954-55 vol 11 pp 75-90 Notes: Hirsch and Biog Univ say he was Greek, but N&R article says he was born in Italy and gives date of death as c 1718 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1714.0010 Late 1600's - after 1741 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 28/05/2025 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA423 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/05/2025 RS_NET\VidaM Yes deb662c4-6db6-4cd9-bb81-843c4aa4811d