Mihinthale
and Anuradhapura hospitals
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| Ruins of an ancient hospital at Mihinthale |
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| A stone cascet used to immerse patients in medicated oils |
Transmission
of knowledge by Memorizing or reading ola leafs, was the practice in ancient times.
Printing had
to be invented for transmission of knowledge in Colleges
The new
thinking of the Renaissance led to Medical Schools as we know it now.
The factors
which really led to ‘Western Medicine’ as we know it today.
1.Dissected knowledge of human anatomy.
2.Knowledge of the existence of
microbes – Pioneering work of Lois Pasteur and Robert Koch.
3.Cellular Pathology as cause of
disease as propounded first by Rudolph Virchow
4.Overturning of the theory of ‘humors’.
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