Background
He was born in the village of Sliema, Malta on 29 July 1888, the second son of the seventh Count Preziosi of Malta.
He was born in the village of Sliema, Malta on 29 July 1888, the second son of the seventh Count Preziosi of Malta.
He graduated in the Royal University of Malta in 1907 and subsequently specialised in ophthalmology in Oxford in 1920.
He was mostly known for devising an original operation for the treatment of glaucoma in 1924, which remained in use for many decades. World War One and World War Two
During the First World War, Luigi Preziosi was a medical officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, while in the Second World War he served as an ophthalmic surgeon and consultant. Medicine
In 1924 he was appointed as Professor of Ophthalmology in the University of Malta.
He was unusual interested in trachoma — a diseases prevalent in Malta at the time.
In his early years, however he obtained his greatest reputation internationally for his treatment of glaucoma which was first published in 1924. He referred to this operation initially as electro-cautery puncture and later simply as Preziosi’s operation.
The procedure was considered an advance over the other available filtering operations such as trephination, sclerectomy and iridencleisis. The operation was discussed at various international ophthalmic congresses over the years.
lieutenant was further developed by Harold G. Scheie in 1957.
Preziosi’s operation for glaucoma remained in use for many years until the development of trabeculectomy. Politics
Preziosi was actively involved in politics.
He was a member of the University of Petroleum and Minerals and later in the interest of the Nationalist Party until 1949 when he retired.