/library/oar/handle/123456789/38308 2025-11-15T20:10:08Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20367 Title: Recto-Sigmoid endometriosis Abstract: Colorectal endometriosis is sufficiently uncommon to warrant reporting as is evidenced by the number of single case reports in the literature. It is, according to statistics quoted f'rom paper to paper, common enough to present one or more times in a life time of surgical experience. The following is a report of a case which was treated recently at St. Luke's Hospital. 1987-03-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20366 Title: A short note on the history of medicine in Malta Abstract: The University of Malta was founded by the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. Thirty years after Grand Master La Vallette had founded the City that bears his name, the Jesuit fathers offered to build a College and a Church in Valletta. This offer was accepted and work was started on the 4th of September 1595. The building was completed in 1602. Twelve Jesuit fathers held public courses in Philosophy and Theology, and the degrees of Master of Philosophy and of Doctor of Divinity were conferred on successful scholars. 1987-03-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20362 Title: Gastroenteritis in the Maltese Islands Abstract: The thirty-first World Health Assembly of 1978 urged its member states through its resolution (WHA 31.44) to identify diarrhoeal diseases in the Mediterranean as a major priority area for necessary action. Towards this end a WHO Mediterranean Meeting was convened in Rome in April 1980; besides Malta, eight other Mediterranean countries participated in the meeting, and these were Algeria, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey and Jugoslavia. The rendezvous was the Istituto Superiore di Sanita in Rome. Malta was represented by Or. P. Cuschieri and Or. A. Mifsud. The main purpose of the meeting was to submit specific recommendations relating to the following: 1. Epidemiological surveillance and exchange of information between National Health authori- ties and WHO. 2. The diagnosis and laboratory identification of pathogens, old and new. 3. Oral rehydration therapy. 4. Support for water and sanitation and related health education programmes. 1987-03-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20361 Title: The development of speech and expression Abstract: Speech and language as a means of communication are marvellous qualities. Speech is used between man and man or on occasions, it is used in, what can be termed as, a collectivised speech. Speech is part and parcel of everyday life and we tend to take it forgranted. However, we can safely assume that in primitive man, speech and vocabulary was limited and rather crude. In the long history of man's development, his progress, though siow, has been remarkable; from a crude ape to an intelligent being in a million years or less, from hunter to agriculturist, from stone to metal user, to citizen in about twenty thousand years or so. That the primitive man who appeared some half-a-million years ago should have had within him the potentialities of civilization with all its achievements in various fields and cultures is an amazing thing. 1987-03-01T00:00:00Z