HERB - Garcia de Orta and Christophori A Costa

[Gaylin Walli]

And one more thing on Orta himself from the same site as mentioned
before (http://www.goldcanyon.com/Patten/html/83.html) -- jasmine


Orta, Garcia de
16th cent.

[Coloquios dos simples e drogas e coisas medicinais da
India e de algumas frutas. Latin]

Aromatvm, et simplicivm aliqvot medicamentorvm apvd Indos
nascentivm historia.

Primum quidem lustanica lingua per dialogos conscripta,
D. Garcia ab Horto, proregis Indiae medico; deinde Latino
sermone in epitomen contracta, & iconibus ad viuum
expressis, locupletioribuso annotatiunculis illustrata
a Carolo Clvsio Atrebate. Qvarta editio, castigatior,
& aliquot locis auctior. Antverpiae, Ex Officina C.
Plantiniana, apud viduam, & Ioannem Moretum, 1593.
"A collective edition continuously signed and paginated,
but lacking a general title page and having separate
special titles for each individual work of L'Ecluse's
translations." --Cleveland coll., 137. References:
Cleveland coll. 137. Includes Aromatum & medicamentorum
in Orientalis India nascentium, by C. Acosta; Historia
medicinal (pts. 1-3) by N. Monardes

This work, containing Clusius' translation of four major
works by Orta, Acosta, and Monardes, describes plants
of India and South Asia. Orta was a Portuguese physician
who had studied medicine in Spain. In 1534 he set sail
from Portugal for India, a journey which lasted six months.
Once there he became a prominent physician in Goa, the
capital of Portuguese India. Orta's work provides
information on almost all the major cultivated plants
of South Asia. Although he was primarily concerned with
plants having medicinal use, he also includes other
edible plants unknown in Europe, becoming the first to
report on mangoes, mangosteens, and durians. As a result
of his research he became an expert on Indian diseases,
and his description of Asian cholera symptoms became a
standard reference. His early writings were among the
first European books to be printed in India.
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