Career
This early immunization effort was called "variolation". He studied law and then physic at Padua before receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He traveled to different parts of Asia and Africa and practised both at Smyrna and Constantinople. In Moscow he was appointed physician to the Russian Tsar Peter the Great.
He returned to Smyrna for the second time and resided there as the Venetian Consul as well as practising physician.
