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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Goa, India

1 entries published in this place. (Goa, IN)

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1563

#1815

Colóquios dos simples, e drogas he cousas mediçinais da Índia e assi dalgũas frutas achadas nella onde se tratam algũas cousas tocantes a medicina, pratica, e outras cousas boas pera saber.

ORTA, Garcia de [Garcia d'Orta] (1501 – 1568)
ORTA, Garcia de [Garcia d'Orta] (1501 – 1568)

The first account of Indian materia medica and the first textbook on tropical medicine written by a European. It includes a classic account of Asiatic cholera, the first account of this disease by a European. This is …