Showing posts with label Text books used by the Medical Students. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Text books used by the Medical Students. Show all posts

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.