e/Francisco Bravo

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has gloss	eng: Francisco Bravo was a medical author, the author of the first medical book published in America as far as is known. His Opera Medicinalia etc. (Authore Francisco Brauo Orsunensi doctore Mexicano medico) was published at Mexico, 1570. Three years before, Dr. Pedrarias de Benavides had published his Secretos de Chirurgia, at Valladolid, Spain, and while the latter work is invaluable for the knowledge of Indian medicinal practices, and is the earliest book on these topics known to have been published, the work of Dr. Bravo has the merit of being the first medical treatise printed in America.
lexicalization	eng: Francisco Bravo
instance of	(noun) a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor" physician, doc, medico, doctor, MD, Dr.

Meaning
Castilian
has gloss	spa: Francisco Bravo (Sevilla, 1525- México, 1595) Médico. Formado en las universidades de Osuna y Alcalá de Henares, se relacionó con humanistas como Francisco Cervantes de Salazar, en Sevilla, ciudad donde ejerció durante un tiempo su profesión. En 1560 marchó a la capital de Nueva España. Suyo fue el primer libro impreso en América, Opera medicinalia (1570), que incluía cuatro relatos relativos al tifus exantemático, la sangría en la pleuritis, la evolución de las enfermedades como una característica esencial de la naturaleza y las aplicaciones terapéuticas de la zarzaparrilla.
lexicalization	spa: Francisco Bravo