https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38865 2026-04-05T12:20:51Z 2026-04-05T12:20:51Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/21893 2017-09-19T01:22:17Z 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Neurophysiology of acupuncture Abstract: Western scientists only began to take acupuncture seriously in 1972 after visits to China increased in frequency. In recent years in the west, acupuncture analgesia (AA) has been restricted mainly to the treatment of acute and chronic pain. However, even for the treatment of pain, many western physicians were skeptical at first, despite a vast body of anecdotal evidence from both China and Europe.

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Title: The modern management of epilepsy Abstract: Epilepsy is the most common of neurological disorders and it imposes a large burden on health care systems. The clinical features, aetiology, seuerity, prognosis and its association with other neurological disabilities uary greatly, and for this reason, many different disciplines may be responsible for supplying care including neurologists, pc.ediatricians, psychiatrists, and uery importantly too, the family doctor. Epilepsy is most easily defined as the name for occasional sudden, excessiue, rapid and local discharges of grey matter. (1) An epileptic seizure can be defined clinically as an intermittent, stereotyped, disturbance of consciousness, behauiour, emotion, motor function, or sensation that on clinical grounds is belieued to result from cortical neuronal discharge. Epilepsy can then be defined as a condition in which seizures recur, usually spontaneously. (2) These seizures may be partial or generalised. The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) has proposed two classification schemes, both of which are in current use. An understanding of these classifications is essential for proper management and communication among clinicians. The International Classification of Epileptic Seizures (ICES) in 1981 , makes use of clinical and EEG information. (3) Table 1. A second classification was formulated by the ILAE in 1989, as it was recognised that patients may experience similar seizure types within a syndrome with similar age of onset and aetiology. This is termed The International Classification of the Epilepsies and Epileptic Syndromes. (4) Classifying epilepsies into a syndrome where possible may be of uital importance in the management of patients with epilepsy.

1998-06-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/21880 2017-09-19T01:22:16Z 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Management of neck lumps Abstract: The purpose of this communication is to call to the attention of the medical profession in general not only to the needlessness but also to the possible harmfulness of excisional lymph node biopsy as the first or even as an early step in the diagnosis of cancer.

1998-06-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/21879 2017-09-19T01:22:13Z 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Maltese medical history as seen through postage stamps Abstract: Philately often depicts the political and social history of a country by commemorating historical events and honouring distinguished persons who gave some contribution to their community. Th e local post began using pre-paid postage stamps after 1858 when the use of British stamps on outgoing mail became compulsory. Th e following year it was decided to reduce the Maltese local postal rate and a distinctive halfpenny stamp for use in the Islands was issued in 1860. Over the last century, Maltese philately has issued a large variety of postage stamps with depictions covering th e span of Maltese history from the arrival of primitive man in Malta to contemporary events. Stamp depictions specifically relating to Maltese medical history has generally been a neglected field, though some issues commemorate local/international medical advances or distinguished physicians.

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