Garcia de Orta
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title:
Garcia de Orta
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Garcia de Orta was a Portuguese physician, herbalist, and naturalist, who worked primarily in Goa and Bombay in Portuguese India. A pioneer of tropical medicine, pharmacognosy, and ethnobotany, Garcia used an experimental approach to the identification and the use of herbal medicines, rather than the older approach of received knowledge. His most famous work is Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India, a book on simples and drugs. Published in 1563, it is the earliest treatise on the medicinal an
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Portuguese botanist (1501–1568)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcia_de_Orta
date created:
2005-04-25T17:15:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T00:57:42Z
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