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    Nicolás Bautista Monardes (1493 – 10 October 1588) was a Spanish physician and botanist. Monardes published several books of varying importance. In Diálogo...
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  • The Quebrada Monardes Formation is a geological formation in Chile dating back to the Early Cretaceous. It was deposited in warm, arid to semi-arid conditions...
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    taking 10% off the value of each crop. In 1569, Spanish botanist Nicolás Monardes described the indigenous peoples' practice of chewing a mixture of tobacco...
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    (Citrus bergamia). The genus was named for the Spanish botanist Nicolás Monardes, who wrote a book in 1574 describing plants of the New World. Monarda species...
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    Jan Presl in 1825. The name "sassafras", applied by the botanist Nicolas Monardes in 1569, comes from the French sassafras. Some sources claim it originates...
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    spelling of the genus Chinchona". Spanish physician and botanist Nicolás Monardes wrote of a New World bark powder used in Spain in 1574, and another physician...
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    R. Boxer, Two pioneers of tropical medicine: Garcia d'Orta and Nicolás Monardes (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library 1963), by ship to Goa in 1534...
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    and described in 1560 by Bernardino de Sahagún and in 1565 by Nicolás Monardes in the infusion known as lignum nephriticum (Latin for "kidney wood")....
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    producing a kind of peaceful drunkenness". In 1571, Spanish doctor Nicolas Monardes wrote a book about the history of medicinal plants of the new world. In...
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    Aztecs, to record c. 1200 plants in his Rerum Medicarum of 1615. Nicolás Monardes’ Dos Libros (1569) contains the first published illustration of tobacco...
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    está de moda Soledad Canal 13 1996 Marrón Glacé, el regreso [es] Rosita Monarde Canal 13 1997 Eclipse de luna [es] Luly Canal 13 1998 Amándote [es] Nelly...
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    Seed head Visited by a hummingbird The genus name comes from Nicolas Monardes, the first European to describe the American flora, in 1569. The species...
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  • of a non-hadrosauroid iguanodontian from the Lower Cretaceous Quebrada Monardes Formation (Chile), providing evidence of the presence of such ornithopods...
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    medicinal properties of cinchona bark by the 1570s or earlier: Nicolás Monardes (1571) and Juan Fragoso (1572) both described a tree, which was subsequently...
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    is today the state of Michoacán) and first described in 1574 by Nicolás Monardes who named in Spanish Carlo Sancto. In Europe the plant was compared to...
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    reportedly similar to Asian spices. A Spanish physician by the name of Nicolás Monardes studied many of the American spices coming into Spain. He documented many...
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    Tropaeolum was introduced into Spain by the Spanish botanist Nicolás Monardes, who described it in his Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de...
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    Indios nascentium historia: Latin translation from Portuguese 1574: Nicolás Monardes, De simplicibus medicamentis ex occidentali India delatis quorum in medicina...
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    Ureta Sire [es] Nelson Valdés Cornejo Raúl Quintana Salazar David Miranda Monardes Klaudio Kosiel Honing Vittorio Orvietto Tiplitzky Ingrid Olderock Enforced...
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  • coca leaves were used as an anesthetic. In 1569, Spanish botanist Nicolás Monardes described the indigenous peoples' practice of chewing a mixture of tobacco...
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    diplomat Jean Nicot used a tobacco poultice as an analgesic, and Nicolás Monardes advocated tobacco as a treatment for a long list of diseases, such as cancer...
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    "Columbi genuen- sis, alias Coloni commendatio." The Spaniard Nicolás Monardes, writes: "In the year 1492 our Spaniards were led by don Christoval Colon...
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    medicinal for the urine]". The Spanish physician and botanist Nicolás Monardes also independently described the medicine in his 1565 work Historia medicinal...
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    statesman Boraginaceae St Moltkiopsis Boraginaceae Bu Monarda Nicolás Monardes (c. 1493 – 1588) Lamiaceae Co Monardella Lamiaceae St Monimia Monime (d...
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  • Guevara Jesús Carroza as Baeza Tomás del Estal [es] as the physician Nicolás Monardes Antonio Gil as Morata Cecilia Gómez as Eugenia, a prostitute Lupe del Junco...
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    later herbals and botanical works including those by Juan Fragoso, Nicolas Monardes, Hendrik van Rheede and Jacobus Bontius. The "Jardim Garcia de Orta", a...
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  • group which included primary investor Enrique Cervantes as well as Jaime Monardes. The new ownership group renamed the team the Patriots to capitalize on...
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  • Nicolás Monardes' Joyfull newes out of the new-found worlde is a translation by John Frampton, a merchant who spent most of his life in Spain, of Monardes' Primera...
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  • well for phisicke as chirurgerie, an English translation from Nicolás Monardes' Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales...
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    28 884 31,02 % 3[d] Felipe Ward Edwards UDI 24 618 37,36 % Marcos Espinoza Monardes PRSD 16 223 24,62 % 4[d] Pedro Araya Guerrero PRI 27 268 24,60 % Manuel...
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