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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47528| Title: | Medicine |
| Authors: | Cassar, Paul |
| Keywords: | Medicine -- Malta -- History Surgery -- Malta -- History Plague -- Malta -- History Physicians -- Malta -- History Barth, Joseph, 1746-1818 Grima, Micheal Angelo, 1729-1798 Zammit, Themistocles, 1864-1935 Hospitals -- Malta -- History |
| Issue Date: | 1994 |
| Publisher: | Malta. Ministry for Youth and the Arts |
| Citation: | Cassar, P. (1994). Medicine. In H. Frendo, & O. Friggieri (Eds.), Malta: culture and identity (pp. 219-231). Malta: Ministry for Youth and the Arts. |
| Abstract: | The story of disease and healing in the Maltese Islands begins with the earliest inhabitants of Malta and Gozo about 3600 to 2500 B.C. The most ancient remains of medico-cultural interest have been found in the Stone Age temples of Mnajdra, Ħagar Qim and Tarxien. The sick resorted to these shrines to implore the deity to restore them to health. By way of thanksgiving for recovery from their illness they were in the habit of depositing in these temples small "ex-votos" of pottery in the shape of the diseased parts of their body: there are examples of a swollen face and foot, and a torso with a prominent abdomen. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47528 |
| Appears in Collections: | Malta : Culture and Identity |
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