Portuguese physician of converso family who practiced in Goa. His Colóquios (1563) was the first European study of the medicinal plants of India. After his death the Inquisition burned his remains, and his sister was burned for Judaism.
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Physician and naturalist · c. 1500–1568
Portuguese physician of converso family who practiced in Goa. His Colóquios (1563) was the first European study of the medicinal plants of India. After his death the Inquisition burned his remains, and his sister was burned for Judaism.
