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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...
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  • Turkey Garcia de Orta (1501 – 1568) Portuguese physician, herbalist and naturalist Jorge Orta (born 1950), Mexican Major League Baseball player Lucy Orta, a...
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    on 10 April 1563 by Garcia de Orta, a Portuguese Jewish physician and naturalist, a pioneer of tropical medicine. Garcia de Orta's work is in dialogue...
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    sell the cannabis-infused Indian drinks bhang lassi and bhang thandai. Garcia de Orta, a Portuguese Jewish physician based in Goa, wrote extensively on bangue...
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    Bombay Castle (redirect from Casa da Orta)
    British on the site of the Manor House built by a Portuguese nobleman Garcia de Orta. Orta had leased the island of Bombay from the King of Portugal between...
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    areas. The specific epithet, "curcas", was first used by Portuguese doc Garcia de Orta more than 400 years ago. Common names in English include physic nut...
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    translations of Garcia de Orta and Nicolás Monardes "Some notes of Charles L`ecluse a native of Gaul Upon the history of spices by Garcia de Orta's Aromatum...
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    common English name "jackfruit" was used by physician and naturalist Garcia de Orta in his 1563 book Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India. Centuries...
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    Khoja Zufar (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    protested against the decision. Zufar had a personal relationship with Garcia de Orta as he would receive gifts of curcas (cataputia minor), from Zufar. In...
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    thick butter, with a combination of flavours." The Portuguese physician Garcia de Orta described durians in Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India published...
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    Bombay were leased to Garcia de Orta, a Portuguese physician and botanist, for a yearly rent equivalent to about £85 sterling. Orta had fled Portugal to...
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    is the surface area, L is the circumference length and R is radius. Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Renaissance Jewish physician, was a pioneer of Tropical...
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    advances in mapping the world. Apothecary Tomé Pires and physicians Garcia de Orta and Cristóvão da Costa collected and published works on plants and medicines...
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    Garcia de Orta he was one of the pioneers of Indo-Portuguese medicine. He published a book on the medicinal plants of the orient titled Tractado de las...
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    at the Hospital de Dona Estefânia in the centre of Lisbon for seven years from 1984. From October 1991, she moved to the Garcia de Orta hospital. From...
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    advances including basic antiseptic practice and the use of anaesthetics. Garcia de Orta described some herbal treatments that were used.[vague] For most of...
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    Igreja (Church Square) where the Jardim Garcia de Orta (municipal garden) with the Portuguese Baroque Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Imaculada Conceição, originally...
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    new data on the Microcoryphia and Zygentoma (Insecta) from the United States". Garcia de Orta, Série Zoologia. 21 (1): 117–126. ISSN 0870-0001. v t e...
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  • psychologist Garcia de Orta (c. 1499 – 1568), botanical scientist Hanna Damásio (born 1942), neurologist Jacob de Castro Sarmento (c. 1691 – 1762) João de Pina-Cabral...
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    Check-list da flora vascular do parque natural das Lagos de Cufada (Guiné-Bissau). Garcia de Orta, Série de Botânica 17: 97-141. Figueiredo, E., Paiva, J., Stévart...
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  • hundreds of Conversos. Solomon Molcho (1500–1532), mystic and writer. Garcia de Orta (1501–1578), herbalist, naturalist and physician. Pedro Nunes (1502–1578)...
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    Parsis (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    an apparently local language term. For example, Portuguese physician Garcia de Orta observed in 1563 that "there are merchants ... in the kingdom of Cambaia...
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    25 October, 1535 to 1548. In 1554, the islands were handed over to Garcia de Orta, a renowned physician and botanist and the author of Colloquies on the...
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    Fernão Mendes Pinto, Fernão Vaz Dourado, Fernão Álvares do Oriente, Garcia de Orta and the aforementioned Diogo do Couto, creating opportunities for debating...
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    journalist. Maria de Fátima Barbosa Campos Ferreira was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1958. She studied at the Liceu Nacional Garcia de Orta (high school) in...
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    explorers, the Portuguese to India (Vasco da Gama) and Goa where physician Garcia de Orta (1490–1570) based his work Colóquios dos Simples (1563). The first botanical...
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    new data on the Microcoryphia and Zygentoma (Insecta) from the United States". Garcia de Orta, Série Zoologia. 21 (1): 117–126. ISSN 0870-0001. v t e...
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  • with a resident theatrical show, Camões Theatre, nautical exhibition, Garcia de Orta tropical gardens, Swatch Pavilion, "World of Coca-Cola" exhibition,...
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    written by Francis Xavier & Garcia de Orta called Colloquios Dos Simples Drogos Medicinais and an early work of the poet Luis De Camoes entitled Os Disparates...
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    the Microcoryphia and Zygentoma (Insecta) from the United States". Garcia de Orta, Série Zoologia. 21 (1): 117–126. ISSN 0870-0001. Bowser, Matthew L...
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