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Ruins of a 2,000 year old hospital in the historical city of Anuradhapura. Sri Lankan medical traditions records back to pre historic era. Besides a number of medical discoveries that are only now being acknowledged by western medicine, according to the Mahawansa, the ancient chronicle of Sinhalese royalty King Pandukabhaya had lying-in-homes and hospitals (Sivikasotthi-Sala) built in various ...
On the other hand, the Sri Lankan hela wedakama tradition is a mixture of Sinhala traditional medicine, mainland āyurveda and Siddha systems of India, Unani medicine of Greece through the Arabs, and most importantly, the Desheeya Chikitsa, which is the indigenous medicine of Sri Lanka.
This hospital was the first medical school in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and was used by Dr. Green to train more than 60 locals as doctors during his 30-year tenure in Ceylon as part of the American Ceylon Mission. Green Memorial Hospital is the second oldest teaching hospital in South Asia. [1]
On 4 March 2021, the institute was officially launched as the 16th National University of Sri Lanka by president Gotabaya Rajapaksa. [2] The university not only focuses on indigenous medicine but also includes programs in technology and modern medicine.
Senaka Bibile (Sinhala:සේනක බිබිලේ) (13 February 1920 – 29 September 1977) was a Sri Lankan pharmacologist.He was the founder of Sri Lanka's drug policy, which was used as a model for development of policies based on rational pharmaceutical use in other countries as well by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and ...
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On the 26 February 1887 W. R. Kynsey (who later became Sir William Kynsey), the Principal Medical Officer of Ceylon arranged a meeting with fifteen other doctors, at the Colonial Medical Library on Maradana Road, Colombo, with a view to organising a branch of the British Medical Association in Ceylon. [3]
A Dictionary of the History of Science. CRC Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1850704188. [10] A Complete Illustrated History of Sri Lanka (2nd ed.). Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications. 2014. ISBN 978-9556651492. [3] His Dictionary of the History of Medicine won a British Medical Association Medical Book Award. [3]