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He was an erudite scholar and researcher-by Dr.Preethi Wijegoonewardene Prof. C C De Silva Source:Dailymirror I am delighted to pen a few words about Prof. C.C De Silva, a great medical luminary, to pay tribute on his birthday which fell on February 25. He was a Colossus in the field of Paediatrics in that era. The admiration and respect he won from his Students Population and the Society at large in Colombo and in fact all over Sri Lanka was amazing. He not only gathered fame in this country, but was well recognised as a researcher in Paediatrics in many other parts of the world. I did not have the fortune to be under his tutelage, but from all that I have heard from -people who are seniors in the Medical Profession- he left an indelible mark in the annals of the history of medicine in Sri Lanka. For me, ...