biography
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Pérez de Herrera, Cristóbal
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pronunciation:
[payreth thay ay
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| male
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| lived:
| (1558–1625)
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| biography:
| Medical adviser to Felipe III and writer on medicine and social welfare, born in Salamanca, W Spain, he spent the profits from his profession on a poorhouse in Madrid. His first suggestion for reform was the Discurso ... a la Católica y Real Magestad del Rey don Felipe señor nuestro, suplicándole se sirva de que los pobres mendigantes verdaderos destos sus reynos se amparen y socorran, y los fingidos se reduzgan y reformen (1595). He composed Elogio a las esclarecidas virtudes de ... Felipe II ... y de su exemplar y Christianíssima muerte ... (Valladolid, 1604), the Compendium totius medicinae (1614), and verse Proverbios morales, y consejos christianos muy provechosos para consejo y espejo de la vida ... (1612). |
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