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/blog

1. Healthcare in Ancient Sri Lanka

2. Iceman

8. Spoons: - Polonnaruwa - susrutha

13. Edwin Smith Papyrus

14. ‘ 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

15. 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.

16. Ficus arnottiana

17. Two Bo varieties

18. Ficus religiosa

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

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

21. SETH WEVA