Hi
Phillip.
Thanks for the excellent work done in documenting all those anecdotes and other matters related to our life in the Faculty.
I would like to add a few facts if you will want to add them to your writings.
I too distinctly remeber how Prof Milroy Paul drives up in his very dark maroon coloured ? ? Riley ( with canvass top) and parks it under that frangipani tree in front of the old Blood bank arriving there around 7.45 am. He gets off the car before it actually stops. He is off to the theatre , while the is stil rolling on and then stopping on its own. The number ,if I remember was EY 2606.
The car Dr Bartholemeuz had was a huge American one, either a Pontiac or Studebacker ?? which had big tail lights . We were the last batch of students to do the clinical appointment with him before he retired. The House surgeon was Dr Micheal Abeyratne.
Dr Niles from the OPD took over his unit. It was fun , for the entire surgery list was only hydrocoelectomies and Herniotomies. Dr M.A used to say that it was a Inguino scrotal surgery unit. While operating Nilo used to give a lecture on the usefulness of the cremasteric musle which he used to patch over the hernial orifice. Usual bassini repair was not done because one has to go too near the Femoral artery (if I remember right ) . I understand most of those chaps came back with a recurrence.
The story about the Rakthaya gahala needs a little correction. Rakthaya is really acute rheumatic pain (waathe). also called Raktha waathe.
Rakthe ya gahala is struck by acute pain (usually of back which is more correctly the description of acute sciatic pain. I do not think there is a serpent by that name. Anyway this will make no difference to the main theme of the story.
Happy authoring !!!
Regards.
Wedi
Thanks for the excellent work done in documenting all those anecdotes and other matters related to our life in the Faculty.
I would like to add a few facts if you will want to add them to your writings.
I too distinctly remeber how Prof Milroy Paul drives up in his very dark maroon coloured ? ? Riley ( with canvass top) and parks it under that frangipani tree in front of the old Blood bank arriving there around 7.45 am. He gets off the car before it actually stops. He is off to the theatre , while the is stil rolling on and then stopping on its own. The number ,if I remember was EY 2606.
The car Dr Bartholemeuz had was a huge American one, either a Pontiac or Studebacker ?? which had big tail lights . We were the last batch of students to do the clinical appointment with him before he retired. The House surgeon was Dr Micheal Abeyratne.
Dr Niles from the OPD took over his unit. It was fun , for the entire surgery list was only hydrocoelectomies and Herniotomies. Dr M.A used to say that it was a Inguino scrotal surgery unit. While operating Nilo used to give a lecture on the usefulness of the cremasteric musle which he used to patch over the hernial orifice. Usual bassini repair was not done because one has to go too near the Femoral artery (if I remember right ) . I understand most of those chaps came back with a recurrence.
The story about the Rakthaya gahala needs a little correction. Rakthaya is really acute rheumatic pain (waathe). also called Raktha waathe.
Rakthe ya gahala is struck by acute pain (usually of back which is more correctly the description of acute sciatic pain. I do not think there is a serpent by that name. Anyway this will make no difference to the main theme of the story.
Happy authoring !!!
Regards.
Wedi
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