A new look at amputations and amputees

Abstract

Malta is a country where one talks of impressions, where rumours abound and where facts, pure facts are quite hard to come by. There are several reasons for this state of affairs: if we limit ourselves to medical matters the main ones are a lack of a proper records system and the difficulty of looking up figures and suchlike on account of one's many other commitments. Trollpe says somewhere or other that happiness consists of having twelve hours work to do and only six hours to do it in. We are in this sense extremely happy: in fact we are laughing, but research is not carried out under these conditions.