/library/oar/handle/123456789/16464 2025-11-11T12:06:57Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/16610 Title: Depression in general practice Authors: Zammit, V.S. Abstract: Attempts to classify depressive illness have become increasingly more complex and controversial. Perhaps from the General Practitioner's point of view, it is wise to adopt this simple but clear classification;(1). A naturally motivated mood or normal non-pathological reaction (2). Reactive or neurotic depression and (3). The depressive Psychosis. Experience in our field shows that only about 5 percent of all depressions that we encounter daily belong to group (3). In my opinion any case belonging to this group should be immediately referred to the psychiatrist or to a mental hospital. During the various psychotherapeutic measures the dialogue with the family doctor probably plays the most important role as this enables the patient, to purge himself of his problems. Nevertheless, in my view, in certain respects the family doctor has an advantage over the psychiatrist because he has probably known the patient, his family and his environment for a long time. 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/16609 Title: The St. Luke`s Hospital Gazette : volume 11 issue 2 Abstract: The editorial commemorates greatly the tercentenary of the foundation the Medical School of Malta, referring to the successful series of activities organised by the Tercentenary Organising Committee set up by the Faculty Board of Medicine and Surgery; an exhibition held at the National Museum, Valletta inaugurated by the Hon. Miss A. Barbara; a scientific session chaired by Prof. A.P. Camilleri; an academic symposium chaired by Prof. V.G. Griffiths; a plaque commemorating the Tercentenary Celebrations unveiled by the Hon. Dr. V. Moran, Minister of Health and Environment, at the Medical School, and many other ceremonies. A final commemorative ceremony was held at the Assembly Hall of the University of Malta. This was inaugurated by the Minister of Education, the Hon. Dr. Philip Muscat. Our Medical School has continued to grow from its modest beginnings into what was described by Dr. Muscat, Minister of Education as the best faculty within the University. Within the issue an index containing the alphabetical list of the authors and titles of all the articles in this volume is included. Furthermore, of interest are also several advertisements promoting the names of particular pharmaceuticals at that time. 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/16606 Title: Diabetic retinopathy Authors: Damato, Francis Joseph Abstract: Diabetic Retinopathy is responsible for about 10 percent of new cases of blindness at all ages and almost 20 percent of new cases of blindness between 45 and 75 years. In a survey of the causes and incidence of blindness in the Maltese Islands carried out in 1958, it was found that diabetic retinopathy was the cause of 17 percent of cases of blindness (Damato 1958). In April 1974, an assessment of cases suffering from Diabetic Retinopathy with a view to treatment by light coagulation, was carried out at the Out Patient Department of St. Luke`s Hospital, Malta, along with Dr. Duncan and Dr. Cullen of Edinburgh University. Three hundred and thirty one cases were examined. The fundi of both eyes of every patient were examined under full pupillary dilatation. Visual acuity was also recorded. 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/16605 Title: The attributes of a Master Surgeon Authors: Griffiths, Victor G. Abstract: This is the fourth Peter Paul Debono Memorial Lecture delivered under the auspices of the Association of Surgeons & Physicians. An appreciation and a detailed eulogy of the Maltese Master Surgeon P.P. Debono are well presented. As a lecturer and as a clinical demonstrator he was immensely popular and so felicitously did he combine intelligence with versatility that one learned from him much more than surgery. Everyone who worked with him knows that he was always in command of the situation, that he was never dismayed or distraught. He was original and `avant garde` in some of his concepts; he suspected the existence of the diabetic autonomic neuropathy that is such a 'new' topic these days. In communicating with patients or students he would put things in a nutshell, with terse and vivid expressions sometimes aphoristic in quality, but more often earthy and homely. As he often told the author, he "felt happier and safer handling a knife than a syringe." 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z