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TIMONI, Emmanuel (1670 – 1718)

1670 – 1718

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1714 CE–1716 CE

#5409

An account, or history, of the procuring of the smallpox by incision or inoculation, as it has for some time been practised at Constantinople.

A letter dated December, 1713 from Timoni of Constantinople to John Woodward, and read to the Royal Society in May, 1714, described the practice in that city of inoculation against smallpox. The letter aroused interes…