The Medical school of Malta

Abstract

The University of Malta was founded by the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem.The schools of pharmacy and of medicine were later additions to the Malta University, but special licences had formerly been granted under the authority of the Grand Masters of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem to young men trained in the hospitals and on the galleys of the order. The Faculty of Medicine of Malta is the direct outcome of the chivalrous Order of the Knights of St. John. The knights were mainly concerned with the treatment of the sick and wounded, for the order originated in the hospital wards of Jerusalem, where the soldiers who fought for the holy places found a bed to rest their weakened body and pious hands to treat their wounds.