TY - BOOK AU - Orta, Garcia Da TI - Colloquies on the Simples & Drugs of India SN - 9781333862411 U1 - 615.30054 ORT 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Mumbai PB - : Asiatic Society of Mumbai KW - Botany KW - Medicine, Colonial India KW - Drugs India N2 - Following after the frontispiece, the work of Garcia da Orta contains the approval of the Count Viceroy dated November 5, 1562. Then there is a dedication to the author's old friend and master, Martin Affonso da Sousa, and a sonnet to the same. The prologue or preface is by Dimas Bosque, and finally comes the celebrated ode by Camoens ER -