Coloquios dos Simples, e Drogas he Cousas Medicinais da India
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Title
Coloquios dos Simples, e Drogas he Cousas Medicinais da India
Subject
Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century
Title pages
Treatises
Description
Once physician to the King of Portugal, Garcia de Orta travelled to India in order to escape the Inquisition, and remained there the rest of his life. He taught in the faculty of medicine at Lisbon in the early 1530's; in 1534, he settled in Goa, where he began a successful practice. De Orta survived the Inquisition unharmed, but after his death, his Jewish ancestry was discovered, and his body was exhumed and burned in an auto-da-féin 1580.
The Coloquios, the third book ever published in India, consists of dialogues between De Orta and a friend named Ruano on the subject of drugs, herbs, and medical traditions native to the East. The book was a revelation to European readers unfamiliar with these ideas. Many editions were published in Latin, French, Spanish, and the original Portuguese.
Abstract
Title page of Garcia de Orta's Coloquios dos Simples, e Drogas he Cousas Mediçinais da India
Creator
Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century
Publisher
por Ioannes de Endem
Date Created
1563
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Is Part Of
Boston Medical Library Rare Books Collection (RS164.O8)
Format
text
Extent
title page
Language
Latin
Type
text
Identifier
DigID0002714
Provenance
Purchased for the Solomon M. Hyams Collection of the Boston Medical Library, 1935
Files
Collection
Citation
Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century, “Coloquios dos Simples, e Drogas he Cousas Medicinais da India,” OnView, accessed April 27, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/12847.