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Goa Sudharop Annual Awards
January 5, 2011 - 3:45 - 6:30pm
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I would request the medical graduate Ferdinando to also learn from the
historian Dr. Fatima da Silva Gracias' well-researched Ph.D. dissertation on
Goa's history, without compromising in any way the education he receives on
sanitation, hygiene and health in Goa, from Dr. Rajan Parrikar, an engineering
graduate and an excellent photographer. I guarantee that for once he will learn
something genuine.
Cheers,
Santosh
--- On Mon, 1/3/11, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> I agree with Rajan on the above topic. But I cannot excuse
> a medical
> graduate for his ignorance. To rely on Health & Hygiene
> history in Goa on
> Ms. Fatima da Silva Gracias, who is not a medical person
> herself, but a
> daughter of late Dr. Transfiguração da Silva, is akin to
> a doctor taking advice
> from a newspaper.
>
> A learned doctor should have the knowledge that Hygiene
> only started
> when it was known to the medical field that bacteria and
> other micro-organisms
> are the cause of illness. And that these organisms thrive
> in dirt. Prior to
> that, even surgeons never sterilised operating instruments,
> which means even
> doctors prior to discovery of micro-organisms were
> unhygienic. From thence,
> science has improved upon ways of eliminating infection
> transmission through
> education of hygiene.
>
> It is foolish for any medical graduate to quote a book
> wherein the
> Title itself “Health and hygiene in colonial Goa,
> 1510-1961" gives away
> the ignorance of the writer.
>
>
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