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Teaching of midwifery in Malta at the beginning of the nineteenth century

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    • Publication Information:
      The St. Luke`s Hospital Gazette
    • Publication Date:
      1973
    • Collection:
      University of Malta: OAR@UM / L-Università ta' Malta
    • Subject Terms:
      Midwifery -- Malta -- History -- 19th century; Obstetrics -- Malta -- History -- 19th century; Childbirth -- Malta -- History -- 19th century
    • Abstract:
      The British Medical Association (Malta Branch) prize in the medical essay competition for 1972 was awarded to Dr. Paul Cassar for this paper. The author came across a document which not only confirms that midwifery was being taught to medical students in the very early years of the 19th century but which also gives us a picture of the state of midwifery at that period. The discovery of this document is worth recording as it furnishes us with the earliest "textbook" of midwifery known to have been used in our medical school. The subject matter covers the different aspects of obstetrics very comprehensively. The author of this “textbook” was Dr. Francesco Buttigieg. It is intended, in this paper, to present a general idea of the basic teaching of Dr. F. Buttigieg and to consider in detail some of the more salient points dealt with by him. ; peer-reviewed
    • Relation:
      https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/15325
    • Online Access:
      https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/15325
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      info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder.
    • Accession Number:
      edsbas.D8573A93