Resumen de Amato Lusitano and his pilgrimages to Europe: his contribution to the development of European medicine in the sixteenth century
This study covers a remarkable period of European history –The Renaissance– and its main objective is to study the contribution of the Portuguese doctor Amato Lusitano (1511-1568) to the development of European Medicine in the sixteenth century.
In terms of methodology we used the content analysis, using data collection to the Portuguese edition of Seven Centuries of Medicinal Cures, published by the Faculty of Medical Sciences, New University of Lisbon, in 1980.
