Medicine, trade and empire: Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India (1563) in context

"Garcia de Orta's book, Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was printed in Goa, the main town and capital of the Portuguese empire in the East. A Portuguese physician of Jewish ancestry, Orta lived in Goa for almost thirty years. The port city was an important but remote te...

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Contributors: Fontes da Costa, Palmira (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Farnham [u.a.] Ashgate c2015
In:Year: 2015
Reviews:[Rezension von: Costa, Palmira Fontes da, Medicine, Trade and Empire: Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context] (2016) (Burns, William E.)
Series/Journal:The history of medicine in context
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Orta, Garcia de 1499-1568, Colóquios dos simples e drogas he cousas mediçinais da India e d'algumas frutas / Orta, Garcia de 1499-1568
Further subjects:B Medicine (India) History 16th century
B Velha Goa (India) Commerce History 16th century
B Medicine (Portugal) History 16th century
B Portugal Commerce History 16th century
B Materia medica, Vegetable (India) History 16th century
B Naturalists (Portugal) Biography
B Portugal Colonies (Asia) History 16th century
B Orta, Garcia de (active 16th century)
B materia medica History 16th century India
B Indian Ocean Commerce History 16th century
B Orta, Garcia de (active 16th century) Colóquios dos simples e drogas e coisas medicinais da India e de algumas frutas
B Medicine History 16th century
B Orta, Garcia de active 16th century
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Summary:"Garcia de Orta's book, Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was printed in Goa, the main town and capital of the Portuguese empire in the East. A Portuguese physician of Jewish ancestry, Orta lived in Goa for almost thirty years. The port city was an important but remote territory in the Portuguese empire, occupying a prominent role in the circuit of trade and exchange of goods such as botanical simples, drugs and spices. Orta's Colloquies presents fifty-nine dialogues concerning more than eighty different drugs, fruits, spices, minerals and medical preparations, all of them either native to India or observed in use there during the author's time in the territory. The book had a market in Asia but was particularly valuable to a European audience, circulating widely in Portugal and Spain, as well as providing the basis for adaptations, commentaries and editions in various languages"--
Item Description:"based on a selection of papers delivered at the conference..."
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1472431235