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Routledge Medicine, Trade and Empire: Garcia de Orta's Colloquies (1563)

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Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India stands as a landmark text bridging medicine, commerce and colonial history in the early modern world. Published in 1563 in Goa, the Portuguese empire's Eastern capital, this work emerged from the author's thirty-year residence in India as a Portuguese physician of Jewish descent. The Colloquies presents comprehensive medical knowledge spanning drugs, spices, plants, fruits and minerals indigenous to India and neighbouring territories, alongside detailed documentation of indigenous medical practices and therapeutic methods. This scholarly edition from Routledge's History of Medicine in Context series contextualises the text within sixteenth-century European-Asian trade networks, exploring how Orta's observations shaped European understanding of Eastern materia medica and challenged prevailing medical orthodoxies of his time.

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Garcia de Orta's 1563 Colloquies documents Indian drugs, spices, plants, fruits and minerals with detailed medical applications and indigenous preparation methods.

The text reflects Portuguese colonial perspectives from Goa, offering unique insights into early modern medicine shaped by thirty years of Eastern residence and practice.

Routledge's History of Medicine in Context series edition provides scholarly contextualisation connecting medicine, trade and empire in the sixteenth-century world.

Orta's work challenges European medical traditions by integrating indigenous Indian knowledge systems and therapeutic approaches with Western medical theory.

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18 March 2016
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