Medicine, trade and empire: Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India (1563) in context
"Garcia de Orta's book, Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was printed in Goa, the main town and capital of the Portuguese empire in the East. A Portuguese physician of Jewish ancestry, Orta lived in Goa for almost thirty years. The port city was an important but remote te...