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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 138,962 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Garcia de Orta is the 364th most popular physician (down from 327th in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 184th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Portuguese Physician.

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  • 21

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Garcia de Orta ranks 364 out of 502. Before him are Ron Wyatt, Willi Graf, Herman Snellen, Robert Remak, Karl Friedrich Burdach, and Rufus of Ephesus. After him are Adolph Kolping, Scribonius Largus, William Cullen, Adolf Kussmaul, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, and Theodor Meynert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1499, Garcia de Orta ranks 18. Before him are Maria Salviati, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Polidoro da Caravaggio, and Laurentius Petri. After him are Gjon Buzuku, Jan Łaski, Sebastian Franck, Lempira, and Johannes Brenz. Among people deceased in 1568, Garcia de Orta ranks 14. Before him are Andrés de Urdaneta, Sophie of Pomerania, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Christoph, Duke of Württemberg, and Nicolaus Olahus. After him are Lady Katherine Grey, Ashikaga Yoshihide, William Turner, Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen, Gaspar Becerra, and Roger Ascham.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Garcia de Orta ranks 218 out of 555. Before him are Fernando Gomes (1956), Infanta Mariana Victoria of Portugal (1768), Jorge Álvares (1401), Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza (1806), José Sócrates (1957), and Afonso, Duke of Porto (1865). After him are Maria de Medeiros (1965), John de Britto (1647), Manuel Monteiro de Castro (1938), Teodósio I, Duke of Braganza (1510), Damião de Góis (1502), and Miguel Torga (1907).

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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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