https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43420 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:53:12 GMT 2026-04-07T20:53:12Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43617 Title: Wound healing : a reappraisal Abstract: It has been suggested that surgeons will never be able to compete with the farrier who successfully sewed back into place, with the aid of fresh sprigs and laurel shoots, the entire rear portion of the Lithuanian horse which the intrepid Baron Boris von Muncausen had just ridden under a falling portcullis. The writer, it is hoped, will be forgiven his enthusiasms when he declines to agree with the above statement. Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43617 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43616 Title: A brief history of medical record-keeping Abstract: The records of Medical observation, facts and developments, form the basic structure upon which the History of Medicine has been written. Some form of such records date back to early antiquity. Polythrone Murals have been found in Stone Age caverns, and silhouettes depicting trephining of the skull and the 'amputation of fingers appear on the walls of Paleolithic caverns in Spain. These date back about 2500 B.C. These early records were primitive in form and essentially descriptive, but they have put on record the Medical and Surgical achievements for generations to follow. Though not strictly records in the modern sense of the word, they are mute evidence that the authors of those days kept some form of records of the treatment that their patients used to receive. Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43616 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43615 Title: Primary dysmenorrhoea : a common clinical problem Abstract: In writing an essay on the condition of primary dysmenorrhoea, one must first and foremost ensure that the reader knows exactly what it is he is reading about. This seemingly superfluous statement is deliberate, and provoked by the apparently infinite variety of definitions attached to this condition. Primary dysmenorrhoea is a distinct clinical entity, and is best defined as a pain which is of uterine origin and directly due to menstruation. It has variously been referred to as true, spasmodic, intrinsic, essential and functional dysmenorrhoea, but I feel that the adjective "primary" is best suited to define a condition which has to be distinguished from two other conditions, namely: 1. Secondary dysmenorrhoea, or dysmenorrhoea following pathologic conditions in the reproductive organs. -- 2. Congestive dysmenorrhoea, or dysmenorrhoea in which the pain arises in tissues outside the uterus. -- This definition is often ignored in some countries, where primary dysmenorrhoea refers to dymenorrhoea dating from the menarche, as distinct from dysmenorrhoea developing after a phase of painless cycles. However, if one is to adopt this latter classificaton, it is probable that very few cases of primary dysmenorrhoea will be diagnosed; it is my clinical impression that dysmenorrhoea dating from the menarche is very uncommon. Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43615 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43614 Title: A case of Von Williebrand's disease Abstract: Von Williebrand's disease is a hereditary haemorrhagic disorder inherited as a dominant characteristic and affecting both sexes. The disease is characterised by three important laboratory findings viz.: 1. An increased bleeding time - this in the acute phase, at other times it may be perfectly normal. -- 2. A positive Hess's test. -- 3. A secondary hypochromic anaemia. Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43614 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z