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Garcia de Orta

1499 - 1568

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Garcia de Orta (or Garcia d'Orta; 1501–1568) 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 (herbs used individually and not mixed with others) and drugs. Published in 1563, it is the earliest treatise on the medicinal and economic plants of India. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Garcia de Orta is the 408th most popular physician (down from 366th in 2019), the 246th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 221st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Portuguese Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Garcia de Orta ranks 408 out of 726. Before him are Adolph Kolping, Antoine Louis, Abella, José Gregorio Hernández, Jim Yong Kim, and Adrien Proust. After him are Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, Walter Jackson Freeman II, Aemilia Hilaria, Justinus Kerner, and Kiyoshi Shiga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1499, Garcia de Orta ranks 15. Before him are Peter of Alcantara, Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, Claude Garamond, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Maria Salviati, and Michiel Coxie. After him are Sebastian Franck, Jan Łaski, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Gjon Buzuku, Laurentius Petri, and Peter Martyr Vermigli. Among people deceased in 1568, Garcia de Orta ranks 17. Before him are Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Nicolaus Olahus, Christoph, Duke of Württemberg, Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen, and Ashikaga Yoshihide. After him are William Turner, Roger Ascham, and Gaspar Becerra.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Garcia de Orta ranks 246 out of 633. Before him are Cristóvão da Gama (1516), Manuel Cardoso (1566), José Costa (1953), Infanta Maria Ana Francisca of Portugal (1736), Afonso, Duke of Porto (1865), and João do Canto e Castro (1862). After him are Fernando II, Duke of Braganza (1430), André Villas-Boas (1977), Maria de Medeiros (1965), Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal (1739), Fernando Couto (1969), and Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia (1415).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Portugal

Among physicians born in Portugal, Garcia de Orta ranks 2. Before him are António Egas Moniz (1874).

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