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101. Acupuncture is a routinely accepted part of medical practice

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
World Health Organization

102. Advancing treatment, providing options: à l'avant-garde de la recherche thérapeutique

Publication:: [Vancouver, B.C.] : Canadian HIV Trials Network, [1997?]
Subject(s):: HIV Infections -- drug therapy
Clinical Trials as Topic

103. Aerial view of the Ndola Hospital complex in Zambia, which will house a research centre for WHO's Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases

Subject(s):: Hospitals
World Health Organization

104. After the operation a bandage remains on the eye to which sight has been restored

Subject(s):: Bandages
Nurses
Hospital Units
Patients
World Health Organization

105. After the poison is collected, the next stage in the production of anti-snakebite serum is dehydration with a vacuum pump

Subject(s):: Snake Bites
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

106. Agissons maintenant: Time to act

Publication:: Geneva, Switzerland : Programme mondial de lutte contre le SIDA, [1993?]
Subject(s):: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control

107. Air nurses in the early days of aviation

Subject(s):: Clothing
Nurses
World Health Organization

108. [Air pollution in Los Angeles]

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

109. Albert Deutsch

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

110. Although the threat of smallpox is declining, this child has to put up with a routine vaccination

Author(s):: Nehmeh, George, photographer
Publication:: [1960-1975?]
Subject(s):: Smallpox Vaccine
Smallpox -- prevention & control
Mother-Child Relations
Mothers
Refugees
Middle East
World Health Organization.

111. Ambulance of the American Hospital--Lycée Pasteur--Neuilly-Paris: 5, La visite du Mèdecin = The morning rounds

Publication:: [France?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1914 and 1917]
Subject(s):: Hospitals, Military
World War I
France
United States
American Ambulance Hospital.

112. [American Cancer Society volunteer assisting a patient in Tennessee]

Subject(s):: Volunteers
Women
Patients
World Health Organization

113. Ampoules are sealed by a special machine which melts the top of the glass tubes to close it. The technicians wear a surgical gown, mask and have to ensure tha they do not contaminate the sera

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

114. An 18th century pharmacy from Köszeg, Hungary - part of a display in the semmelweis Museum of Medical History in Budapest

Subject(s):: Pharmacies
World Health Organization

115. Anatomy course for Swedish officers at a school in Göteborg

Publication:: 1968?
Subject(s):: Students, Medical
Education, Medical
Teaching
Anatomy
World Health Organization

116. Ancient and modern meet in Kazakhstan. A flying doctor service brings urgent medical care to rural populations whose home is the tradiaitonal nomas'd tent

Subject(s):: Aircraft
Emergency Medical Services
Health Personnel
World Health Organization

117. [The hands of Professor Clarence Crafoord of Stockholm, a pioneer of modern heart surgery, are shown taking the pulse of a patient, of whom only a hand is shown]

Author(s):: Almasy, Paul, 1906-2003, photographer
Publication:: [1955-1965?]
Subject(s):: Pulse
Cardiovascular Diseases
Surgeons
Patients
Hand
Sweden
Crafoord, Clarence.
World Health Organization.

118. L'ange guérisseur =: An angel = Anioł uzdrowiciel

Author(s):: Enjolras, Delphin, 1857-1945, artist
Publication:: Paris : I. Lapina, [between 1900 and 1950?]
Subject(s):: Nurses
Red Cross
France

119. [Anti-opium poster in Hong Kong]

Subject(s):: Health Education
World Health Organization

120. The apathy and sadness of malnutrition. This girl in a hospital in Jordan is suffering from a severe protien- calorie deficiency

Subject(s):: Hospital Units
Child
World Health Organization

121. [Appreciative spectators during entertainment and dancing in a leper colony]

Publication:: [195-]
Subject(s):: World Health Organization

122. Are education and propaganda sufficient to alter the habits which breed sexually transmitted diseases?

Subject(s):: Health Education
World Health Organization

123. Arrivez, arrivez, nourrice

Author(s):: Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847, artist
Publication:: [France]: [18--]
Subject(s):: Nurses

124. Assemblee des Vieux Garcons: The Assembly of Old Batchelors

Publication:: London: Bowles & Carver
Subject(s):: Aged
Pulse
Orthopedic Equipment
Gout

125. A child at play. However, the game this little turkish girl is playing with is specially made for blind children who have to substitute the sense of touch for that of sight

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

126. Attention les jeunes: gardez-vous des Maladies Vénériennes

Subject(s):: Health Education
France
World Health Organization

127. Autonomy is essential for diabetic sufferers: Daily self-injection

Subject(s):: Injections
Child
World Health Organization

128. A basis of practical knowledge underlies the spiritual healer's rulings on when to eat certain fruits or when they are forbidde, Taboo

Subject(s):: Medicine, Traditional
World Health Organization

129. Before a decision on treatment is made, the patient is examined thoroughly. The examination may include heart catheterization ans angiography. The A.L Miasmikov Institute of Cardiology in Moscow conducts detailed studies of the various cardiovascular disease and their distribution in relation to age

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Physicians
Patients
Equipment and Supplies
Nurses
USSR
World Health Organization

130. Before carrying out smallpox vaccinations, this public health nurse gives a lecture on the disease to schoolchildren in Republic of Veit-Nam

Subject(s):: Health Education
Nurses
Teaching
Child
World Health Organization

131. Birth of a doctor at Leyden, one of the most ancient and renowned universites in the world. 3,342 hours of lecture, 927 hours of practical work before the final ordeal of the diploma. ."Abandon hope, all Ye who enter here." is written large over the entrance to the examination room

Subject(s):: Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Netherlands
World Health Organization

132. Blackflies

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

133. Bleu horizon et bleu céleste =: two sky blues = Dvi︠e︡ sily

Author(s):: Solomko, Serge de, artist
Publication:: Paris : I. Lapina, Imp. Edit., [not before 1916]
Subject(s):: Nurses
World War I
Europe

134. Blood circulation in the newborn

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Infant, Newborn
Cardiovascular Diseases
World Health Organization

135. Blood plasma, normally clear, turns milky white when levels of cholesterol and other fatty substances become to high

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
World Health Organization

136. Blood pressure being taken of a suspected case of hypertension

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Health Personnel
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

137. Bonnes vacances: Prettige vakantie = Happy holidays = Buenas vacaciones

Publication:: Bruxelles : Agence prévention Sida, [19--]
Subject(s):: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control
Condoms
Safe Sex

138. Brain tumours: the new image = Les tumeurs du cerveau : la nouvelle image

Publication:: [Montreal] : McGill Cancer Centre, Dept. of Oncology, [1990]
Subject(s):: Brain Neoplasms
Diagnostic Imaging

139. Breast-feeding gives a baby the best start in life. What was sound in traditional practices of the past should not be destroyed in the name of progress

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

140. Bringing research to life: a history of pharmaceutical research and development in Canada = La recherche, source de vie : histoire de la recherche et du développement pharmaceutiques au Canada

Publication:: [Ottawa, Ont. : National Museum of Science and Technology, 1989]
Subject(s):: Pharmaceutical Preparations -- history
Biomedical Research -- history
Technology, Pharmaceutical -- history
Exhibits as Topic

141. Bulk transport of pharmaceuticals - in this case anti-cholera supplies en route to South-East Asia. Whatever the moevment of drugs takes place, and particularly when they have to be repackaged, what is important from the point view of safegauarding drug quality is to locate the high-risk points

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

142. The call to the hospital

Subject(s):: Emergency Medical Services
Public Health
World Health Organization

143. [Canadian health service airplane ambulance]

Subject(s):: Transportation of Patients
Public Health
World Health Organization

144. Cancer clinics and cancer institutes have been set up throughout the Eastern Mediterranean Region. This woman is having a mammography test - which uses x-rays to check for possible breast cancer- at the Salah Azaïz Cancer Institute in Tunis

Subject(s):: Cancer Care Facilities
Radiography
X-Rays
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

145. A cancer patient receives cobalt therapy at the Tirana Cancer Institute

Subject(s):: Cancer Care Facilities
Radiotherapy
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

146. [Cancer treatment requires teamwork among various specialists]

Subject(s):: Cancer Care Facilities
Referral and Consultation
France
World Health Organization

147. Care population program: enriching lives through careful choices

Publication:: Atlanta, GA : CARE, [19--?]
Subject(s):: Family Planning Services
Quality of Life
Voluntary Health Agencies

148. Cauterization, the application of heat, is a recognized form of treatment for certain mental disorders under the Tibetan system of medicine, which draws on both Ayurveda and Chinese traditional healing

Subject(s):: Patients
Mental Disorders
Physicians
Medicine, Traditional
World Health Organization

149. Cave rescue teams

Subject(s):: Emergency Medical Services
First Aid
Transportation of Patients
World Health Organization

150. The cells in our body have learned to work as a team, and the strength of the team depends upon collaboration between it individual units. These Bavarian schoolboys are al diabetics

Subject(s):: Child
World Health Organization

151. Chaleur en ville: plonge à coup sûr!

Publication:: Toronto, Ont. : AIDS Committee of Toronto, [1992]
Subject(s):: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control
Condoms
Swimming

152. Checking blood pressure with an electronic machine

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

153. Child Alive: Que vive l'enfant = Para que vivan los niños

Publication:: [Geneva] : League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, [19--]
Subject(s):: Diarrhea -- prevention & control
Child
Fatal Outcome
Rehydration Solutions -- therapeutic use

154. Child Alive: Que vive l'enfant = Para que vivan los niños

Publication:: [Geneva, Switzerland] : League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, [19--]
Subject(s):: Diarrhea -- prevention & control
Hand Disinfection

155. The child should still be breast-fed until he is two-years-old. This is our tradition. It is good we should keep it

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

156. Childhood tuberculosis is a slow, insidious disease. This vietnamese boy is getting his BCG vaccube protection against it

Subject(s):: Child
Nurses
World Health Organization

157. Children in the Netherlands learning how to keep their mouths healthy. Good habits started early in life are a sound foundation for oral health

Subject(s):: Dental Offices
Dental Equipment
Dental Instruments
Toothbrushing
Child
Health Education
Netherlands
World Health Organization

158. [Children with kuru, a fatal nervous system disorder]

Subject(s):: Child
New Guinea
World Health Organization

159. The chiropodist is a medical auxiliary qualified to treat superficial foot complaints such as ingrown toenails, callouses ans corns, which can make walking an agony

Subject(s):: Health Personnel
World Health Organization

160. Cholera can thrive where poverty, overcrowding and primitive sanitation are found together, as in this Asian city

Subject(s):: Public Health
World Health Organization

161. [Class in midwifery for medical assistants]

Subject(s):: Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Midwifery
Students, Medical
Teaching
African Continental Ancestry Group
World Health Organization

162. [Classroom instruction in anatomy]

Subject(s):: Anatomy
Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Teaching
Netherlands
World Health Organization

163. The coast guard keeps a strict watch

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

164. Collecting a drop of blood on a standard disc of blotting paper

Subject(s):: Health Personnel
World Health Organization

165. Condom-- préservatif (prezrvatif): the only protection against AIDS : in a pharmacy, just say bonjour, une boîte de préservatifs, s'il vous plaît

Publication:: [Paris] : Mairie de Paris, [19--]
Subject(s):: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control
Condoms

166. Congenital malformations of the heart originate in the embryo

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
World Health Organization

167. [Conglese medical student taking notes at a university in Lyons, France]

Publication:: [1962?]
Subject(s):: Students, Medical
Education, Medical
African Continental Ancestry Group
Women
World Health Organization

168. Control of the virus diseases transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti is an increasingly important problem. The mosquito is a vector of yellow fever but it also transmits hemorrhagic fever. A aegypti is the most "domesticated" of all mosquitoes- where man congregates, there this mosquito multiplies abundantly

Subject(s):: Public Health
Child
World Health Organization

169. Crème de la crème

Publication:: Zurich : Hot Rubber, [198-]
Subject(s):: Lubricants
Penis

170. Croix Rouge de Belgique =: Belgian Red Cross : sous le patronage de L.L. M.M. Le Roi et la Reine des Belges

Author(s):: Kuchel, Charles, artist
Publication:: [Belgium] : [Croix Rouge de Belgique], [between 1914 and 1920?]
Subject(s):: Red Cross
Nurses
Military Nursing -- history
World War I
Belgium
Croix-Rouge de Belgique.

171. Croix Rouge et tête noire, deux cœurs d'or =: Red Cross and black head, two hearts of gold = Dva zolotykh serdt︠s︡a

Publication:: Paris : Imp. I. Lapina, [1915?]
Subject(s):: Nurses
Red Cross -- history
Military Nursing -- history
African Americans
World War I
France
Croix-Rouge française.

172. The crutch that cripples. This Soviet poster reads:"In drinking somebody else's health, you risk harming your own."

Subject(s):: USSR
World Health Organization

173. Current techniques for stimulating the "points" include the use of lasers

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
World Health Organization

174. Declaration of the Paris AIDS Summit: Déclaration, Sommet de Paris sur le sida = Declaración, Cumbre de Paris Sobre el Sida

Publication:: [Toronto]: International Council of AIDS Service Organizations, [1994]
Subject(s):: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Prejudice

175. Dehydration turns the snake poison into very fine yellowish crystals

Subject(s):: Snake Bites
World Health Organization

176. Dental assistants in Bacau, Romania

Subject(s):: Dental Offices
Dentistry
World Health Organization

177. [Dental students in a laboratory]

Publication:: 1967?
Subject(s):: Dentures
Dental Equipment
Women
World Health Organization

178. Le dernier home de Edith Cavell =: De laatste woon van Edith Cavell = Last home of Edith Cavell

Publication:: Louvain, Brux. : Cliche et edit R. Ringoet, [between 1915 and 1930]
Subject(s):: Nurses
World War I
England
Cavell, Edith, 1865-1915.

179. The desperate face of starvation. Emergency rehydration may just save this little boy's life in a Bangladesh hospital. But when coupled with chronic malnutrition, acute diarrhoeal dieases are child-killers

Subject(s):: Bangladesh
Child
World Health Organization

180. Dévouement =: Devotedness = Poświęcenie = Predannostʹ

Author(s):: Tenre, Charles Henry, 1864-1926, artist
Publication:: Paris : I. Lapina, [1916?]
Subject(s):: Nurses
Military Nursing
Red Cross
France
Croix-Rouge française.

181. Direct method of examining the fundus oculi or eyeground

Subject(s):: Ophthalmology
Equipment and Supplies
Physicians
World Health Organization

182. The Director of the "last-chance hospital" gets ready to operate. She wears magnifier over her spectacles and has slipped on runner gloves. The operation is a corneal graft

Subject(s):: USSR
World Health Organization

183. Diseases like obesity and high blood pressure may be directly attributable to the "affluent society."

Subject(s):: Women
World Health Organization

184. The dispensary of Barasat Court Compound, east of Calcutta: emergency rehydration of cholera patients

Subject(s):: Emergency Medical Services
Nurses
World Health Organization

185. [Dissection exercise]

Subject(s):: Dissection
Laboratories
Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Netherlands
World Health Organization

186. The doctor takes throat swabs for laboratory examination

Subject(s):: Nurses
Health Education
Child
Physicians
Physical Examination

187. [Doctors preparing blood cells for tissue typing]

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

188. Dr. Boris Yegorov

Subject(s):: Physicians
Physical Examination
USSR
World Health Organization

189. Dr. Emilio Pampana

Subject(s):: Malaria
World Health Organization

190. [Dr. Nikolai Blokhin and others]

Subject(s):: USSR
World Health Organization

191. Dr. Nourani showing his staff different oesophagoscopes for carrying out biopsies on patients

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Operating Rooms
Nurses
Physicians
Iran
World Health Organization

192. Dr. P.N. Shreshta

Publication:: 1979
Subject(s):: Public Health
World Health Organization

193. Dr. Paul Sivadon (France), President of the World Federation for Mental Health, which organized Mental Health Year 1960-1961

Subject(s):: France
World Health Organization

194. Dr. Piotr Serguiev, photographed during the 1966 World Health Assembly when he was awarded the Darling Prize for his work in malaria epidemiology and control

Publication:: 1966
Subject(s):: Awards and Prizes
Public Health
World Health Organization

195. Dr. Yadollah Zafari ... is lecturing ... on variants of the cholera vibrio

Subject(s):: Laboratories
Education, Medical
Teaching
Nigeria
World Health Organization

196. Dr. Zdravko Toshev, the village dentist

Subject(s):: Dental Offices
Dental Equipment
Dentists
World Health Organization

197. Dr. Zubernik

Subject(s):: Physicians
USSR
World Health Organization

198. Dr. [Zdenek] Rychter produces his own tools for his very delicate operations

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

199. [Drug addict]

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

200. [Drug research in England]

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization