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JAMA. 1970;211(7):1178-1179.

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Garcia da Orta, clinician and student of materia medica who spent most of his active years in India, was born in Portugal, near the Spanish border; he was the offspring of Castilian Jews who were baptized Christians.¹ His classical and medical education, gained through the benevolence of Martin Affonso de Sousa, later viceroy in western India, was obtained at the universities of Salamanca and at Alcalá de Henares. He received his medical degree about 1525, practiced medicine for several years at Castello de Vide, the village of his birth, before he was called to Lisbon as professor of logic at the University. Not feeling secure in Lisbon where Jewish persecution was beginning, and attracted by the transmarine explorations and the tremendous expansion of the colonial empire, da Orta, in 1534, sailed for the Far East as personal physician to de Sousa and surgeon to the Portuguese Navy.

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