Portrait details: Painted by Mascare
Souville, 1924; Text on portrait reads:
MELITENSIS PRIMUS "LEGIONS
HONORIS" CRUCE CONDECORATUS-
INTER EQUITES CORONAEITALIAE,
ADLETUS-PUBLICAE GALLIAE
INSTRUCTIONIS "OFFICIALIS-SALUTAUN
AERTEM IN MELITENSI ATHENAEO
DOCUIT-IBIQUE IN QUINQUE MEDICINAE
DISCIPLINIS QUAESITOR-MORBI
"ENCEFALITIS LETARGICA" NUNCUPATI
NATURAM ANNO 1920 INVENDIT-
ECUSDEMQUE SPECIMEN EULGAVIT
1922.
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Wednesday, 03 December 2014
Born: 1863; died: 10/08/1932. Education: University of Malta; followed postgraduate studies in midwifery in the Rotunda
Hospital of Dublin, Ireland; Qualifications: M.D. [Malta, 1883];
L.M. [Dublin, 1893]. Career: Government Health Service - visiting physician at the Central Hospital and the Infectious Disease
Hospital; acting accoucher and gynaecologist at the Civil Hospital.
Member of the Lunatic Asylum Board and the Prison Visitor's
Board; district medical and sanitary officer. Achievements: during his stay in Dublin published a case report and discussion entitled Acute Yellow Atrophy of the Liver in Pregnancy; was the first practitioner to use the rock-oil treatment in Malta and introduced the use of anti-toxin treatment of diphtheria in Malta
[1895]; referred young children bitten by rabid dogs for treatment by Louis Pasteur in Paris; during World War I appointed physician to French Navy and awarded Legion d'Honneur.
References: A. Macmillan [ed.]: Biographical Notes – Malta. Malta and
Gibraltar Illustrated. Historical and Descriptive, Commercial and
Industrial, Facts, Figures and Resources. Collingridge, London, 1915, p.395; C. Savona-Ventura: Portelli Carbone, Alphonse. Maltese
biographies of the twentieth century [eds. M.J. Schiavone; L.J. Scerri].
PIN, Malta, 1997, p.460; Portraits at the Medical School. Maltese Medical
Journal, 1998, X[2]:p.5. The Daily Malta Chronicle and Garrison Gazette,
12 th February 1895.