https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43376 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:22:20 GMT 2026-04-06T08:22:20Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43476 Title: Wound healing a re-appraisal : part one Abstract: "The History of Wound Healing reflects the history of the development of Surgery", states Boyd in his textbook of Surgical Pathology. Recent developments in the field of surgical research have indicated startling possibilities for developments which will necessitate the evolution of completely new concepts. Since the subject of Wound Healing is more than adequately dealt with in textbooks, it is proposed to cover only those concepts which have arisen in the last few years, although any essay dealing with Wound Healing without a brief recall of the historical milestones would be incomplete. Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43476 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43474 Title: A hydatiform mole Abstract: A.B., a 19-year old prima gravida, married in January 1967, and first missed her period in the 3rd of March of the following year. There was no previous history of abortion, and nothing peculiar in her family history apart from her mother having had twins. She experienced vomiting in the first trimester, and no toxaemia (which rarely occurs before the end of the 20th week, is frequently symptom-free, and often undiagnosed unless the patient attends ante-natal care). Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43474 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43473 Title: Notes on the history of Caesarean section Abstract: As far back as mythological times one can find references to this operation, In the writings of the Egyptians, the Romans (among them Pliny), and the Greeks, it is never mentioned as being performed on the living mother. As regards the Greeks, the birth of Aesculpius might well have been the first Caesarian Section ever performed. According to legend Caronis, Aesculpius's mother, had betrayed her husband Apollo, who avenged himself by burning her on the funeral pyre, after taking the premature infant from her uterus. Other authorities assert that Aesculpius was born before his mother died of puerperal sepsis, and thus he could not have been possibly born by Caesarean Section, as the Greeks performed this operation only on dead mothers to save the baby for the state. Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43473 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43472 Title: St. Anthony's fire Abstract: In studying medicine, encounters with relics of the past in the shape of eponyms often make one stop and wonder as to the association between the medical syndrome or term concerned and the character recalled. It is even still more fascinating to investigate and ponder upon such a correlation when the individual immortalized does not happen to be a physician, surgeon, or alchemist of old, but a complete alien to 'the medical profession; in this case an ascetic, a saint: St. Anthony of Egypt! The close affinity of medicine and pathology to priests and ascetics is as old as man himself; man always sought supernatural aid in his sickness, when therapeutic aid was fruitless or not forthcoming, and the priest mediated his claims and supplications with the deity. With the advent of the Christian era and culture, this did not change, and the taumaturgical powers of various saints and holy men have been invoked in unmerous diseases, plagues, and pestilences of man and beast alike. Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43472 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z