/library/oar/handle/123456789/42161 2026-01-02T18:35:15Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/42211 Title: Chest-piece : volume 1 : issue 1 [supplement] Editors: Xuereb, Charles Abstract: On the 27th November 1948, the Minister of Health, Dr. A. Schembri-Adami, met the members of the Medical Profession. and delivered a talk on The National Health Insurance Scheme which the present Labour Government intends introducing In the Island in the near future. We are publishing in this Supplement to Vol. 1 No. 1 of "The Chest-Piece" the Minister's Message to the Medical Profession, and we take this opportunity of offering some candid criticism on the subject, although these are days when we are stilI very much in the dark as regards the details of the Scheme. 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/42210 Title: The heart in hyperthyroidism Abstract: Cardiac disorders, which, for lack of better designation, are vaguely labelled as "Myocarditis", will very often be found to be nothing else but the main manifestation, sometimes the only manifestation, of a diseased thyroid, if the effect of hypersecretion of this gland on the circulatory system is kept in mind. In the case where the cardiac condition is accompanied by all the classical signs of hyperthyroidism, the real cause of the mischief is, of course, evident, but the difficulty arises where the thyroid enlargement is not at all conspicuous and where the usual signs and symptoms do not accompany the circulatory disturbances. 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/42209 Title: Cerebral vascular accidents Abstract: It is important to realise from the outset cerebral thrombosis and cerebral haemorrhage are not as was previously thought almost antagonistic; that a differential diagnosis between the two conditions for the purpose of applying different forms of treatment is not absolutely essential. Cerebral thrombosis and hemorrhage are not mutually exclusive the reason being that the underlying pathological condition is the same, viz., a degenerative process in the vascular wall which gives rise indifferently to either condition. In practice it is found that in the same patient while thrombosis is the cause of the initial strokes, haemorrhage is the cause of the final and fatal one. Consequently cerebral haemorrhage is seen more often in the autopsy room whereas cerebral thrombosis is more commonly met with in the hospital wards. 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/42208 Title: Recent advances in the treatment of blood diseases Abstract: During the past few years there has been considerable research activity in the therapy of blood diseases and success has been recorded in' many instances. 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z