Ebook: Medicine, Trade and Empire: Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context
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- Series: History of Medicine in Context
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Routledge
- City: London, Asia., India., India--Velha Goa., Array, Array, Portugal--Asia, Velha Goa (India)
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
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"Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was one of the first books to take advantage of the close relationship between medicine, trade and empire in the early modern period. The book was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the East, and the city where the author, a Portuguese physician of Jewish ancestry, lived for almost thirty years. It presents a vast array of Read more...