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1. " In this age of machinery and nuclear energy ..." Cancer: determination of the wrist-towrist circulation time by means of radioiodine is a useful diagnostic technique

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

2. ... plastic phantoms filled with sodium chloride solution are used for measuring radioactivity

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

3. A laboratory at Babol, Iran, where work on a WHO cancer project is in progress

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

4. A pacemaker to prevent heart block is bbeing passed into the patient's right ventricle while the checks its position on the x-ray screen

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

5. A recent method of diagnosing detachment of the retina by examining the eyeground with a three-mirror glass devised by Professor Goldman of Berne, Switzerland

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

6. A specially equipped ambulance linked by radio to the coronary care unit of a hospital. Energency treatment can be started immediatley

Subject(s):: Ambulances
Cardiovascular Diseases
Health Personnel
Transportation of Patients
Patients
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

7. 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

8. 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

9. Blood circulation in the newborn

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

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

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

11. 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

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

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

13. Checking blood pressure with an electronic machine

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

14. Direct method of examining the fundus oculi or eyeground

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

15. 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

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

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

17. [Drug research in England]

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

18. The druggist's manual: being a price current of drugs, medicines, paints, dye-stuffs, glass, patent medicines, &c. : with Latin and English synonyms, a German, French, and Spanish catalogue of drugs, tables of specific gravities, &c. &c., and a variety of useful matter

Author(s):: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (1822-1921)
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed for the College by Solomon W. Conrad, 1826
Subject(s):: Materia Medica
Equipment and Supplies
Pharmacies

19. During the operation vital information on the patient's condition is projected continuously on displays panels in both the operating room and observation room. The data system can collect and record 24 different sequences of physiological inforamtion

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

20. Electro-retinogram: modern apparatus devised to measure the electric potential of the retina

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

21. An electrocardiogram is registered. This person suffers from high blood pressure. Such patients should have their blood pressure checked regularly

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

22. [Electrocardiogram on child in Kenya]

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

23. The electron microscope - one of the wonders of modern technology

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

24. An electronic device which "listens" to heart sounds

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

25. Encephalography room at the Neurological Institute of Bucharest

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

26. Equipment for studying the respiratory and cardiovascular systems

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

27. Difference phases of a heart operation. 12743: The machine that circulates blood to the vessels in the heart and brain during the operation while the heart itself is stopped. 12745: reconnecting the arteries by sewing together with a device developed in the Soviet Union several years ago ans since adopted by cardiac surgeons all over the world. 12744: after the operation an electric stimulator is applied in the heart area to start a regular beat

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

28. Examination for cancer of the mouth

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

29. Examination of the retina with a binocular ophtalmoscope [i.e. ophthalmoscope]

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

30. Gastric endoscopy, such as this patient is undergoing after local anaesthetic, uses a flexible fibre-optic to enable the doctor to examine the lining of the stomach and other previously inaccessible areas of the body

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

31. Hypertension detection team at work in India. A standard method of compiling the data from such surveys has been suggeseted by WHO, but it is a flexible system and can be modified to suit local conditions

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

32. In Egypt, school children are examined for streptococcal infection, which may be a warning of rheumatic fever

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Physical Examination
Physicians
Nurses
Stethoscopes
World Health Organization

33. In an intensive care unit, monitoring by electrocardiograph continues day and night

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

34. Information and education about family planning has to be adapted to the community and to the individual

Subject(s):: Mothers
Mother-Child Relations
Physicians
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

35. An injection of iodine 131 to observe concentration in the kidneys

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

36. It is her first baby. The setting the preparations, the precautions against mishap maybe modern, but the great event lived by mother and child is essentially what is always has been

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Infant, Newborn
Nurses
Parturition
Sweden
World Health Organization

37. Laboratory analyses are made immediately

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

38. Laboratory tests may be useful to patients with hypertension

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

39. The large regional hospitals employ modern, expensive equipment

Subject(s):: Hospitals
Health Personnel
X-Rays
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

40. [Lessons in ophthalmology]

Subject(s):: Child
Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Teaching
Equipment and Supplies
Netherlands
World Health Organization

41. The machine that will take over the functions of the patient's heart and lungs during the operation

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

42. Machines of Modern Medicine

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Physicians
X-Rays
World Health Organization

43. Measuring the blood pressure

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

44. Measuring the physiological response to heat stress in a climatic chamber

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

45. [Medical education at The Weizmann Institute, Israel]

Subject(s):: Animals, Laboratory
Laboratories
Education, Medical
Equipment and Supplies

46. [Miniature transmitter used to monitor heartbeats]

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

47. Modern medicine tends to emphasize technical solutions

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

48. Water composition is probably also related to cardiovascular diseases. At the University of Helsinki, the water analysis is performed with a x-ray emission spectrometer

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

49. Nurse Nataly Nyepomnachai records an electroencephalogram

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

50. [A bone marrow transplant patient]

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

51. [A bone marrow transplant patient]

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

52. Open heart operation

Subject(s):: Surgical Instruments
Operating Rooms
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

53. Neurophysiology: The course of the seizure is followed by the electroencephalograph - at the controls

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

54. Through an arm artery, a plastic catheter has been passed into the heart to reach a coronary artery. An injected opaque medium shows up on x-rays and enables the doctor to see the condition of the coronaries; picture 13150 shows close-up of x-rays screen

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Physicians
Health Personnel
X-Rays
Patients
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

55. The passage of the dye through the blood vessels is recorded by two small photo-electric cells

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

56. [Patient wearing a portable pump for the administration of medication]

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Patients
Nurses
Hospital Units
France
World Health Organization

57. Postgraduates at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital are taught cardiac auscultation with the aid of a multi-channel stethoscope

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Students, Medical
Education, Medical
Stethoscopes
Patients
Equipment and Supplies
Nigeria
World Health Organization

58. Public health nurse checks blood pressure of an elderly patient. Such routine checks will help to reduce the threat of heart attacks and strokes in this high-risk area of Finland

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

59. Radio-iodine test for thyroid in the Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine, Heidelberg

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

60. The radioactive isotope section of Bucharest Cancer Institute

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

61. [Research at The Weizmann Institute]

Subject(s):: Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

62. Robot patients

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Injections
World Health Organization

63. [Scientist using an electron microscope]

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

64. The sound of the dog's heartbeats is picked up by a microphone stuck to his fur

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

65. 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

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

66. Specialists at a cancer clinic in Kemerovo, Western Siberia, readying a gamma-radiation machine for use

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

67. Studies in the functioning of the thyroid gland

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

68. [Swiss physician is checking an elderly patient's blood pressure]

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

69. Testing for skinfold thickness

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

70. This school girl is at home with a sore throat and the doctor checks her heart

Subject(s):: Physical Examination
Physicians
Stethoscopes
Equipment and Supplies
Child
World Health Organization

71. Tonograph used for the early detection and diagnosis of claucoma. The drainage speed of eye fluid is registered and interpreted. [i.e. glaucoma]

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

72. Treatment of cancer of the liver by radiation

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

73. Vaccine production in the USSR. The centerifuge seperates out al foreihn matter and ensures that the vaccine is pure

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Smallpox Vaccine
USSR
World Health Organization

74. Whole body counter in scanning bed

Publication:: [1969?]
Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

75. You can now take your own blood pressure without the aid of a doctor and the method is the most objective known so far. This new device will aid research into hypertention

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Hypertension
Blood Pressure
Women
World Health Organization.