Ideas and Researches on Physical Concepts in India
2015; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 50; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.16943/ijhs/2015/v50i4/48368
ISSN2454-9991
Autores Tópico(s)History of Science and Medicine
ResumoGarcia de Orta (1501-1568) was a famous Portuguese Renaissance Sephardic Jewish physician who renounced Judaism to become a Christian.He was also a herbalist and naturalist and born in Castelo de vide as the son of Fernao de Orta, a merchant.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.deOrta 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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