Plimpton. He came from a large family of eleven children. Green lost his mother when he was eleven years old. He graduated as a medical man on the 13th of March, 1845 and about the middle of November 1846, he volunteered to serve the American Board.

The American Mission was the first to start a medical Mission in Ceylon. In 1819, Dr. John Scudder came as the first medical missionary there. This American mission accepted Dr. Green's services and deputed him as a missionary-physician to Ceylon. On the 4th of September, 1847, he reached Madras and from there reached Ceylon on the 6th of October of the same year. After a few months stay at Vaddukoddai-where he used the equipment and continued the work of Dr. Ward-he moved to Manipay. His fame spread far and wide. Apart from catering to the needs of the sick he managed to collect during his spare time a few students and began to teach them medicine.

In 1850, a medical school was founded and Dr. Green supervised its work also. Those students who studied under Dr. Green were later appointed as Government doctors.

Dr. Green's first classes were conducted in English. He soon found that the English terminology of medical text books was unintelligible even to the educated natives. They had to be taught in their own language. He immediately launched on a stupendous programme-which involved many years of toil-of accurately defining in Tamil the medical terms and the task of creating a medical nomenclature in Tamil.

The first work he selected for translation was the “Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene” by Dr. Calvin Cutter.

In 1855, a Dictionary of Tamil medical science and a work on Medical Synonyms English and Tamil were started by him, along with many other translations.

After almost ten years in Jaffna he left for his own country where he stayed for five years. During this period, he married and returned to Jaffna with his wife. A second term of ten