/library/oar/handle/123456789/20130 2025-11-14T04:42:44Z 2025-11-14T04:42:44Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20218 2017-07-27T10:01:59Z 1986-09-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Editor's letter [Medi-Scope : issue 9 editorial] Abstract: The sick patient is a frightened, despirate and helpless human being. How often do medical and paramedical staff members consider patients as such? In my little experience as a medical student and as a house physician-surgeon, I have observed that there is a gross lack of awareness of this obvious fact; indeed, how many times have we witnessed arrogance in our wards and how often do patients complain that they are not told results of investigations after so many uncomfortable venepunctures, for instance, or that the consultant fails to have a modest word with them? It is true that the workload in our hospital is rather heavy and much is expected from all; we are fallible humans ourselves with personal problems of our own; we do encounter situations which drive us to our wit's end: our facial expression, tone of voice and general demeanour frequently leave much to be desired. A vicious circle is set up as the already morose surroundings are further influenced by our ill-temper. The patient, very young, adult and old alike, finds himself, often quite unexpectedly, in a new and rather hideous environment: the impressive sharp instruments, steel equipment and machinery; the sounds that pollute the air: the moans and groans of patients in pain, sputum being propelled from the depths of respiratory tracts of chronic bronchitis, the clutter of metallic instruments, the voices of stern professors; the cocktail of odours of urine, faeces, drugs and disinfectants.

1986-09-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20217 2019-05-20T09:00:20Z 1986-09-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Medi-Scope : issue 9 Editors: Bugeja, Mark Abstract: FELICE, A., & VELLA, C. - Diaphragmatic hernia -- CUSCHIERI, A. - The role of H-Y antigen in gonadal differentiation and anomalous sexual development -- AZZOPARDI, N. - Drugs used in Malta for obstetric analgesia and anaesthesia -- SAVONA VENTURA, C. - Male subfertility -- CASSAR, P. - Physiological and pathological research at the general military hospital in the early ninetheenth century -- TAUSHANOV, M. - Asthmatic child and sport.

1986-09-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20211 2017-07-01T01:21:04Z 1986-09-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Male subfertility Abstract: Infertility is a condition that involves a man and a woman attempting unsuccessfully to conceive a child. A working definition of the problem is necessary to provide criteria for initiating an evaluation. As a practical guide, infertility is present when a woman fails to conceive after one year of regular, sufficiently frequent, unprotected intercourse. Since the male or female or both partners may have specific factors causing the infertility, both should be examined initially. Male subfertility accounts for 45% of all infertile marriages and contributes to a further 10% when both partners are subfertile.

1986-09-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20208 2017-08-02T06:32:06Z 1986-09-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Physiological and pathological research at the general military hospital of Valletta, Malta, in the early nineteenth century Abstract: The theoretical and practical progress achieved by the biological sciences in our time contrasts very markedly with the tentative experimental studies in these fields in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Those distant years are of special interest to the historian of medicine as they formed the matrix in which the seeds of our present knowledge were sown and cultured. Malta may take some pride in the fact that it has had a share - albeit a small one· in the series of steps leading towards the elucidation of the chemical, physiological and pathological perplexities of those formative years. This was possible thanks to the investigations and observations of Dr. John Davy carried out at the British General Military Hospital of Valletta- formerly the Holy Infirmary of the Order of St. John - between 1828 and 1835.

1986-09-01T00:00:00Z