Note 526 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 3)

Unless Corrêa’s description (Lendas, iv. 288-9) is earlier. Other events recorded by Corrêa which must have closely affected Orta are the fate of a bachelor of medicine strangled and burnt by the Inquisition at Goa in 1543 (iv. 292) and the outbreak of small-pox, from which 8,000 children died there in three months in 1545 (iv. 447). The Dialogo da perfeyçam & partes que sam necessarias ao bom medico (1562), with the exception of the dedicatory letter to King Sebastian and the title, is written in Spanish (25 ff.). Apparently Afonso de Miranda found it in Latin among the books of his son Jeronimo (who had studied at Coimbra and Salamanca) and translated it.