PILARINO, Giacomo [PYLARINI] (1659 – 1718)
1659 – 1718
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1714 CE–1716 CE
#5410
Nova & tuta variolas excitandi per transplantationem methodus, nuper inventa & in usum tracta.
This reprint of No. 5409.1 appeared in the same volume as Timoni’s paper. Both were republished in Latin: Tractatus bini de nova variolas per transplantationem excitandi methodo, Leyden, 1721. Digital facsimile …
1715 CE
#5409.1
Nova et tuta variolas excitandi per transplantationem methodus; nuper inventa & in usum tracta: Qua rite peracta, immunia in posterum praeservantur ab huiusmodi contagio corpora.
Inoculation was practiced in ancient times. In 1701 Pilarino inoculated three children at Constantinople with smallpox virus. He is credited with the “medical” discovery of variolation, and is thus the fir…