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Francisco Valles also known as ''Divino Valles'' Covarrubias, 4 October 1524 –
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, 20 September 1592) was a Spanish physician, the best example of the medical
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in Spain.


Biography

He was born at Covarrubias, and studied in several European cities, which brought him into contact with
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, the personal physician of King
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and «''Médico de Cámara y Protomédico General de los Reinos y Señoríos de Castilla''» (chief physician Medical and General Chamber of Kingdoms and Dominions of Castile). He served most of his life in
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, where he taught medicine, and was the first in Alcalá to teach medicine for the body. In addition to medicine Vallés was a great humanist and writer. His last years were spent in the apothecary's Monastery of ''El Escorial'' prepared by the distillation of natural plants. He died in
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, and is buried in the chapel of ''
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'' in
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. He was commemorated by the noted Spanish botanists,
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and Pavón when they named a South American shrub, Vallesia in 1794.


Books

*
Controversiarium medicarum et philosophicarum
'
1556

2ª ed. 1564

3ª ed. 1583
. *
Commentaria in quartum librum metheoron Aristotelis
' (1558). *
Claudii Gal. Pergameni De Locis Patientibus Libri Sex
' (1559). *
In Aphorismos, & libellum de alimento Hippocratis, comentaria
' (1561). *
Octo librorum Aristotelis de physica doctrina versio recens & commentaria
' (1562). *
Controuersiarum naturalium ad tyrones pars prima
' (1563). *
Comentarii de vrinis, pulsibus & febribus
' (1565)
1569
. *
Commentaria in Prognosticorum Hippocratis
' (1567). *
Galeni ars medicinalis commentariis
' (1567). *
Comentaria in libros Galeni de differentia febrium
' (1569). *
Commentaria in libros Hippocratis de Ratione victus in morbis acutis
' (1569)
1590
. *
In libros Hippocratis de morbis popularibus, commetaria
' (1577)
1588
. *
De sacra philosophia.
' (1587).
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=FwiiCsVIxDsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Francisco+Vall%C3%A9s+(()%22&hl=es&ei=Rcz9TKz8MuqQ4gbH29jCCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false Methodus medendi]'' (1588). *
De vrinis, pulsibus, ac febribus compendiariae tractationes.
' (1588). *
In aphorismos Hippocratis commentarij VII
' (1589).
Tratado de las aguas destiladas, pesos, y medidas de que los boticarios deuen usar.
(1592). *
De iis, quae scripta sunt physice in libris sacris siue de sacra philosophia.
' (1595).

(1620).


See also

*
Alcalá de Henares Alcalá de Henares () is a Spanish city in the Community of Madrid. Straddling the Henares River, it is located to the northeast of the centre of Madrid. , it has a population of 193,751, making it the region's third-most populated Municipalities ...
* Covarrubias *
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* General practitioner *
University of Alcalá The University of Alcalá ( es, Universidad de Alcalá) is a public university located in Alcalá de Henares, a city 35 km (22 miles) northeast of Madrid in Spain and also the third-largest city of the region. It was founded in 1293 as a ...


References


External links


Francisco Valles. Retratos de Españoles ilustres con un epítome de sus vidas. Madrid; 1791



Martín Ferreira AI. «Las ‘controvertidas’ ''Controversiae'' del médico humanista Francisco Vallés: ''Controversiarum medicarum et philosophicarum libri decem'' 1556–1590». Universidad de Valladolid.
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