Sunday, August 3, 2014

Text books used by the Medical Students at Manipay, Jaffna in the 1850s onwards.


A page from a Text-book of Chemistry with its Tamil translation below.


A Tamil translation of a text-book of Anatomy. 
A Tamil translation of a text-book of Surgery.
Preface to a translation in Tamil of the 'Vadae maecum' - a ready reference.
In an effort to stem the brain-drain of his medical students, Dr. Green started teaching Western Medicine in Tamil. He translated the English text-books into Tamil and taught the students in Tamil. This was in the latter part of the 1860's.

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