[The Order of Malta and its politics of health from the 14th to the 18th centuries].

The Order of Malta established in Jerusalem in the 12th century retreated to Saint Jean of Acra then to Cyprus in 1291, to Rhodes on 1310 and to Malta in 1530 to remain there until 1798. In Rhodes it erected an hospital called the "Collachium". The "Grand Maître" had for assistant in charge of the health the Hospitalier a man who was always the chief of the French Knights. In Malta, in 1593, was founded a great hospital or Sacred Infirmary, at la Valette with a staff of three doctors and two assistants, eight surgeons and assistants and a apothicary with three apothicaries and five assistants. The Malta University, including a Faculty of Medicine was founded in 1769 where they taught anatomy, chemistry, physiology, pathology, semeiologie, hygiene and therapeutics.