Healthcare in Ancient Sri Lanka

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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.

Spoons: - Polonnaruwa - susrutha

Edwin Smith Papyrus

‘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

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.

Ficus arnottiana

Two Bo varieties

Ficus religiosa

Let it be health and joy to usLet nothing torment or injure us,Let water be the universal medicine.

“Good health is simply the slowest way a human being can die”

SETH WEVA