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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Garcia de Orta has received more than 146,933 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Garcia de Orta is the 366th most popular physician (down from 364th in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Portugal (down from 217th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Portuguese Physician.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Garcia de Orta ranks 366 out of 726. Before him are Carlos Chagas, Moritz Kaposi, Pierre Fauchard, Johann von Staupitz, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, and Adolph Kolping. After him are Ali ibn Ridwan, Bénédict Morel, Robert Remak, Claus Schilling, Hiraga Gennai, and Karl Genzken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1499, Garcia de Orta ranks 16. Before him are Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, Maria Salviati, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Michiel Coxie, Jan Łaski, and Polidoro da Caravaggio. After him are Sebastian Franck, Laurentius Petri, Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, Gjon Buzuku, Lempira, and Peter Martyr Vermigli. Among people deceased in 1568, Garcia de Orta ranks 16. Before him are Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Christoph, Duke of Württemberg, Nicolaus Olahus, Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Gaspar Becerra, and Ashikaga Yoshihide. After him are Lady Katherine Grey, Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen, William Turner, and Roger Ascham.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Garcia de Orta ranks 221 out of 633. Before him are Mariana Alcoforado (1640), Humberto Coelho (1950), Afonso, Duke of Porto (1865), Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919), João Cancelo (1994), and Tristão Vaz Teixeira (1395). After him are Manuel Bento (1948), Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo (1930), Manuel Clemente (1948), Fernando Couto (1969), Francisco Lázaro (1891), and António José de Almeida (1866).

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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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