/library/oar/handle/123456789/43191 2026-01-02T12:23:47Z 2026-01-02T12:23:47Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/43341 2019-05-23T01:26:12Z 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The development of medical jurisdiction Abstract: Medical Jurisdiction of Forensic Medicine may be defined as the application of medical and paramedical sciences to the purposes of the law, both civil and criminal, and the administration of justice. The emergence of Medical Jurisprudence, as a separate scientific entity, depends upon the existence of a legal system and a body of Medical knowledge. Its history and development can only be traced from a stage of civilization when records became available. The earliest records take us back only about five thousand years.

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Title: The use and abuse of anticoagulants in myocardial infarction Abstract: The wheel has turned a full circle with regard to the place of anticoagulants therapy in the treatment of recent myocardial infarction. Initially therapeutic enthusiasts claimed a marked reduction in the morbidity and mortality rates, especially from thromboemolism with the result that the use of anticoagulants became widespread throughout the world. With the passage of time enthusiasm had (begun to wane; but recent therapeutic trials especially one by the Medical Research Council (M.R.C.) in 1959 has again aquired to a certain degree a prominent place for anticoagulants in the treatment of myocardial infarction.

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Title: An introductory excursion into statistics Abstract: Statistical analysis is probably the kind of research most suited to a spare time research worker. All that is actually needed for minor surveys is: a reliable source of information, a fair amount of patience and more often than not, a calculating machine. Most of our students graduate with little knowledge of statistical terms and methods and consequently, very little statistical work has been produced in these islands. This is a great loss, especially when one considers how Malta, being a small island, would be an ideal site to carry out statistical surveys. The purpose of this article is not to substitute such an introductory course on statistics, but to clarify a few basic terms commonly used in statistical work.

1967-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/43224 2019-05-18T01:28:02Z 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The role of insulin in Diabetes Mellitus Abstract: Diabetes mellitus has been known to exist from time immemorial. It was recognised in ancient Egypt and has been found described in Indian Sanskrit Verdic literature as "the passing of urine with honey". Aretaus (1st century A.tD.) gave the first classical description of the disease and laid emphasis on the large amounts of urine passed - hence the term diabetes, from the Greek for siphon. It was left to Thomas Willis who, recognizing the importance of sugar in the urine, added the term mellitus - Latin for honeyed - in 1674, thereby distinguishing it from the insipid variety. Chevreul in 1815 finally defined the nature of the reducing substance in urine of diabetics to be glucose.

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