Portrait
details:
Painted by Lazzaro Pisani, 1909, copy in office of Director
General [Health]
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Salvatore
Luigi Pisani
Professor of
Anatomy,
Midwifery & Gynaecology, and Surgery, and CGMO.
Born:
Vittoriosa,
27/05/1828;
died: Zejtun,
27/10/1908.
Education: Lyceum,
Malta;
University
of Malta;
University
of Edinburgh;
also visited
several medical centres in London,
Paris,
Berlin,
Vienna,
and Italy.
Qualifications:
M.D. [Malta,
1850]; M.D.
[Edinburgh,
1853];
L.R.C.P. [U.K.,
1853]. Career: 1854 volunteered
to serve as surgeon with British Army during Crimean War and worked
with
Florence Nightingale. Returned to Malta
1855 and
continued to serve as medical officer in British Army until 1856. Government Health Service – had a very
active medical serving as specialist accoucher and surgeon in the
government
hospital. In 1885 appointed to the post of Chief Government Medical
Officer,
retired 1902; University of Malta
-
Professor of Anatomy and Histology
[1858-1875], Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology [1858-1869], and
Professor
of Surgery [1869-1885]. Achievements:
Published a number of treatises including Ktieb il qabla [Malta,
1883]; Twissijiet fuq il mard tal-korla [Malta,
1885]; Fuq il mard tat-tfal u kif nilghulu [Malta,
1885]; Report
on the Cholera Epidemic in the year 1887 [Malta,
1888]; also
initiated the series of annual public health reports in 1896. Pisani
was also a
renowned numismatic and art collector publishing Medagliere di
Malta e Gozo
dall’epoca Fenicia all’attuale Regnante S.M. La Regina Vittoria
[Malta,
1896] and
bequeathed his coin and medal collection to the National
Museum
in 1899.
Appointed Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and
St.
George [C.M.G.] by Queen Victoria
[1895].
References:
C.
Savona-Ventura: Pisani, Salvatore
Luigi. Maltese biographies of the twentieth century [eds. M.J.
Schiavone; L.J. Scerri]. PIN, Malta,
1997, p.455;
Portraits at the Medical
School.
Maltese
Medical Journal, 1998, VIII[1]:p.48. Public
Opinion, 28th May 1895.
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