Samuel Fisk Green

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Samuel Fisk Green
BornOctober 10, 1822
Worcester, Massachusetts
DiedMay 28, 1884(1884-05-28) (aged 61)[1]
Green Hills, Massachusetts
Occupation(s)Physician, missionary

Samuel Fisk Green (1822–1884) was an American medical missionary. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He served with the American Ceylon Mission (ACM) in Jaffna, Sri Lanka during the period (1847–1873) when it was the British colony of Ceylon. During his tenure he founded the Sri Lanka's first medical hospital and school in what later became the Green Memorial Hospital in Manipay in the Jaffna peninsula.[2][3] He translated and published over 4000 pages of medical literature from English to Tamil as part of his efforts to train doctors in their native language. He was personally responsible for training over 60 native doctors of whom majority had their instructions in Tamil.

  1. ^ Cutler, Ebenezer (1891). Life and letters of Samuel Fisk Green, M. D., of Green Hill. p. 420.
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