https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/44311 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:58:50 GMT 2026-04-18T11:58:50Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/42346 Title: One year of clinical pathology Abstract: Mine was indeed a very low tide, when one year ago, through no fault of mine, I found myself in charge of the Clinical Laboratory at St Luke's Hospital. To be sure, it was at that time only a small room with a table, eight or nine reagent bottles, and some test-tubes. There was too, a very modern electric centrifuge, apparently without ball-bearings as the children in an adjacent ward mistook its noise for that of a jet-propelled aeroplane. Since then the small room has grown into a glorified ward laboratory. Sat, 01 Jan 1949 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/42346 1949-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/42345 Title: Effects of war on the mental health of civilians Abstract: It is a common belief that the upheaval of war is responsible fur a greater incidence of psychiatric illnesses among civilians than are bound to occur in peacetime. Such factors as fear, worry about the fate of relatives and sudden bereavements, are thought to act as precipitants of mental illness. It is understandable, therefore, that at the outbreak of war (1939) it was envisaged that a certain proportion of civilian casualties would be of a psychiatric nature. Sat, 01 Jan 1949 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/42345 1949-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/42344 Title: Artificial insemination Abstract: Natural and Christian morality maintains everywhere its imprescriptible rights, and it is from these, and not from any considerations of feelings or of materialistic and naturalistic philanthropy, that the essential principles of medical decontontology [the science of duty or moral obligation] are derived: such as the dignity of the human body, the preeminence of the soul over the body, the brotherhood of all men, the sovereign domain of God over life and destiny. Sat, 01 Jan 1949 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/42344 1949-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/42299 Title: The romance of vision Abstract: Sight, in a general sense, may be taken to mean sensitivity to light, while in a more restricted but more proper. sense, it means the conscious appreciation of a sensation obtained through the eyes. Sight is therefore the response to light. In our school days we were thought that light was a form of energy and that there was an unbridgeable difference between energy and matter; we now know that the two are really different manifestations of the same thing; both are composed of electrons and protons, the different proportions of each, their affinities and their relative movement, determining the nature of be substance, whether it be light, sound or a piece of stone. We know that light has mass, volume and weight. Sat, 01 Jan 1949 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/42299 1949-01-01T00:00:00Z