1. Immunologists discussing a case at the University Hospital of Leiden (Netherlands)
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2. From the era of witch doctors to the era of physicians
3. [Surgical clinic at the Baroda Medical College]
4. [Dissection exercise]
5. Women receiving their supply of contraceptive pills at an Egyptian family planning clinic
6. Eager clients press to the windows of the pharmacy where packs of herbal preparations are being made up
7. A young man leaving to defend his doctorate in medicine
8. From the era of witch doctor to the era of physician
9. [A bone marrow transplant patient]
10. Nurse Nataly Nyepomnachai records an electroencephalogram
11. 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
12. The hospital serves as a collection point for herbs, leaves and other ingredients, man of which are cultivated in nearby commune gardens
13. To spend a lifetime in the dark- like this little Indonesian child- is tragedy enough. Even more shocking is the fact that this blindness is unnecessary and preventable
14. An 18th century pharmacy from Köszeg, Hungary - part of a display in the semmelweis Museum of Medical History in Budapest
15. Malaysian poster explaining the use of the pill
16. A "barefoot" doctor listens to the heartbeat of the unborn child. These useful community health workers used once to be literally barfoot, when they brought their healing skills to wokers int he rice paddy- fields
17. Young public health nurses making their rounds along jungle paths in the island of Tongoa, New Hebrides
18. The epidemic attacks mainly children and young people
19. Medical attention for the aging population
20. Taigichuan (Tai Chi), a kind of slow-motion martial art, is regarded as a healthy exercise for doctor and patients alike
21. [Lessons in ophthalmology]
22. Preservation of tissues in liquid nitrogen
23. 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
24. Modern scientific methods supplement a tradition of kindness
25. Modern equipment of an operation theater
26. [Appreciative spectators during entertainment and dancing in a leper colony]
27. [Doctors preparing blood cells for tissue typing]
28. Neurophysiology: The course of the seizure is followed by the electroencephalograph - at the controls
29. [Classroom instruction in anatomy]
30. [A victim of kuru]
31. In the Ouagadougou Hospital rehydration fluids are administered to a child with marasmus, whoose mother has another deificiency disease, goitre
32. Professor G. Abelev of the Gamaleja Institute in Moscow
33. 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
34. Teaching local technicians to identify the carrier of the disease under the microscope
35. [Conglese medical student taking notes at a university in Lyons, France]
36. Hospital conditions are not always as hygienic as modern medical care demands
37. [Dental students in a laboratory]
38. The world's children; in a hospital in Tunis
39. A traditional doctor examines her patient's tongue and makes her diagnosis
40. A modern European pharmacy
41. Interviewing an adolescent in Asia and application of the Rorschach test
42. Weighing a new-born baby. Training In South-East Asia reflects the new approaches to rural health care
43. A group of young European males engaged in a drinking bout
44. Soviet scientists at the Cancer Research Institute, Moscow studying the immunology of various tumours. Some of this work is directed towards an understanding of spontaneous tumours that occur in animals
45. [A young leprosy patient with bandaged fingers]
46. A happy mother and a happy child in a health centre at Francistown, Botswana. A combination which throughout the ages has been the hallmark of a satisfactory quality of life
47. The right amount at the right time
48. [Physical examination of a leprosy patient]
49. There is no single method of attack against malaria. A trained entomologist collects mosquito specimens by sucking them into a plastic tube
50. Hay fever
51. The IUD, or intra-uterine device, being placed in an applicator for insertion
52. Electrophysiological test in a psychiatric hospital
53. Simple precautions like adding iodine to the diet can prevent the tragedy of cretinism. This child's mother suffers from goitre
54. [A wax bath for a young male leprosy patient]
55. Anatomy course for Swedish officers at a school in Göteborg
56. The main entrance hall of the Royal Infirmary
57. [Injection of a sulfone-oil suspension]
58. [Research at The Weizmann Institute]
59. Sick Yemenite baby at camp Yoknaam, covered with flies
60. The Lomé Research Centre
61. Diseases like obesity and high blood pressure may be directly attributable to the "affluent society."
62. Malnutrition is a tragedy for millions of children and their families. Yet scenes like this can be avoided
63. Lunch time at the Karolinska Hospital
64. The simplest of equipment suffices to prepare traditional herbal medicaments and roll them into pellets. The pharmacopeia of traditional Chinese medicine has long proved to be a great storehouse of knowleldge
65. Dental assistants in Bacau, Romania
66. Rehydration fluids being readied for transport in plastic containers. The packaging of drugs too must be checked for potential dangers
67. The apathy and sadness of malnutrition. This girl in a hospital in Jordan is suffering from a severe protien- calorie deficiency
68. An experimental bone marrow transplant
69. The old, no less than the younger generations, are entitles to their share of right- including the right to care and compassion
70. Above all, nursing means the offer of loving care and attention when it is most needed
71. 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
72. 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
73. R.P. Mouton defending his doctorate thesis
74. Even in normal circumstances, malnutrition is common among African women
75. [A patient in germ-free plastic capsule]
76. Edinburgh medical students examine the skeleton of a notorious nineteenth century murderer and body-snatcher, William Burke
77. The child should still be breast-fed until he is two-years-old. This is our tradition. It is good we should keep it
78. Maternity Home in Ulan Bator
79. Women emerge from the shadows
80. A disturbed man reverting to childhood
81. The hopelessly ill and the mentally sick: modern medicine has no justification for subjecting either patient to any experiment that is not intendend to relieve their own suferring. Nor would it be right for a close relative or guardian to give vicarious consent on their behalf to such experimentation
82. Practical work for medical students at Teheran University
83. [Medical education at The Weizmann Institute, Israel]
84. A patient undergoing Thirummal treatment, in which his body is covered with medicated oil and massaged delicately by hand or foot: one of the accepted techniques of Ayurveda
85. The large regional hospitals employ modern, expensive equipment
86. Studies in the functioning of the thyroid gland
87. Geriatric service at the Karolinska Hospital, Sweden]
88. [The tell-tale signs of leprosy]
89. In Africa as in other parts of the developing world, UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Fund) working together with WHO in fields such as maternal and child health
90. Studious solitude of future doctor
91. [Class in midwifery for medical assistants]
92. A team in Togo investigating the density of mosquito larvae in streams and marshy land
93. Blood circulation in the newborn
94. [Skin lesions on a young leprosy patient]
95. [Medical students in a laboratory]
96. 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
97. [A young female leprosy patient]
98. The old-style pharmacy often used poisonous compounds, thus lending substance to Voltaire's complaint that physicians " prescribe medicine of which they know little to cure dieases of which they know less in human beings of which they know nothing"
99. Before applying the healing power of his hands, the bomoh tells his patients to breathe deeply and then puts them into a trance
100. The pharmacy at the St. Elizabeth Hospital in Vienna, Austria
