healthcare in ancient sri lanka
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Slide show presented with the speech made at the Royals Asiatic Society Colombo on Aug. 31st, 2009, The complete article is at www.saadhu.com/blogTRANSCRIPT
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Healthcare in Ancient Sri Lanka
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Iceman
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Types Of Ancient Hospitals
1) monastic hospitals where in-house treatment was provided for ailing monks for short or long periods
2) hospitals for laymen where in-house treatment was provided
3) maternity homes
4) hospitals where only outdoor treatment was provided.
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Spoons: - Polonnaruwa - susrutha
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Edwin Smith Papyrus
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‘the vast majority of drugs – more than 90 percent – only work in 30 or 50 percent of the people’.
- Dr. Allen Roses, world-wide Vice President of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline
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Anguttara Nikaya, Gilana Sutta,
A person who would not recover from the illness whether he does or does not receive amenable food, amenable medicine, or proper nursing.
A person will recover from the illness whether he does or does not receive amenable food, amenable medicine, or proper nursing.
A person who will recover from the illness only if he receives amenable food, amenable medicine, and proper nursing.
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Ficus arnottiana
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Two Bo varieties
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Ficus religiosa
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Let it be health and joy to usLet nothing torment or injure us,Let water be the universal medicine.
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“Good health is simply the slowest way a human being can die”
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SETH WEVA