Bhavamishra is one of the major figures of the Indian medicine of the 16th century. The author of the Bhavaprakasha , treated ayurvedic medicine, mentions the Syphilis at that time introduced by the Portuguese tradesmen ( Firanga Roga , is the disease from abroad) as well as the remedy. The work of doctor de Bénarès also approaches the origin of medicine, cosmology, the anatomy, the embryology, dietetics, pharmacology, pathology and therapy, as well as of the manufacture of aphrodisiacs and elixirs.