Garcia de Orta
#21,127
Most Influential Person Across History
Portuguese botanist
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Garcia de Orta's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of Lisbon
Why Is Garcia de Orta Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Garcia de Orta was a Portuguese physician, herbalist, and naturalist, who worked primarily in Goa and Bombay in Portuguese India. A pioneer of tropical medicine, pharmacognosy, and ethnobotany, Garcia used an experimental approach to the identification and the use of herbal medicines, rather than the older approach of received knowledge.
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