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ORTO (ORTA; HORTO, HORTA), Garcia ab (da)

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Portuguese physician. Castelo de Vide, c. 1500 - Goa (India), c. 1568. Studied medicine at the Spanish universities of Salamanca and Alcala de Henares. He returned to his native town in 1523, became qualified to practice medicine and then moved to Lisbon. In March 1534 he sailed for Goa to become the personal physician to the Portuguese vice-kings. Cf. Dictionary of scientific biography edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie, 10, 1974, pages 236-238; Palau y Dulcet, 6, page 106; BB, IV, pages 577-584; M. de Jong, 'Inleiding tot het werk van Garcia da Orta' in Scientiarum Historia, 6, 1964, pages 16-24.

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