Medicine, Trade and Empire: Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context.

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Anna Winterbottom

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Garcia de Orta was one of the pioneers (according to western view) of tropical medicine, pharmacognosy and ethnobotany. de Orta’s parents who migrated from Spain as Jewish refugees were forcibly converted to Christianity in 1497 though there was a doubt that they practiced Judaism secretely.de Orta studied medicine in Portugal and fearing the infamous Portuguese inquisition where neochristians were persecuted for working against Catholicism, he migrated to Goa then a Portuguese colony. In 1538, he settled in Goa and developed a good medical practice.

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