Dr.NO, Mana Wedisinghe

e mail from Wedisinghe

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

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