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52. Laboratory tests may be useful to patients with hypertension
53. Many lives are being saved by this ambulance specially equipped to deal with severe heart attack cases in Northern Ireland. But prevention is better than cure; the risks stemming from high blood pressure can be considerably reduced by treatment, which can almost totally rule out heart failure and most strokes
54. Testing for skinfold thickness
55. 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
56. A young patient with rheumatic fever on the terrace of the Pyramid Clinic
57. Residents of a Bombay suburb gather in the courtyard for a routine checkup during a community survey on high blood pressure
58. [Health education: smoking and hypertension]
59. A traditional midwife, the dia, makes her first delivery after being retrained in the fundamentals of safer childbirth. Meanwhile, a neighbour bangs on a tin tray in time-honoured fashion to make the baby cry
60. A frightened farmer carries his wife, stricken down with tetanus, to the People's Health Centre in Savar- a boldly pioneering complex that is bringing health care to the rural poor of Bangladesh
61. 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
62. A woman "paramedic" tests the tetanus case for serum hypersensitivity before starting the emergency treatment that will save her life
63. One of the blood sampling techniques during an epidemiological survey in Togo
64. Education of untrained midwives in modern methods of delivery, sanitation, and hygiene
65. Student medical auxiliaries during an anatomy lesson
66. ... concerned with the cause and prevention of malnutrition in children
67. The kiss of life: practical instruction for a village health worker in Samoa
68. ... functional façades bristle with bamboo rods hung with brightly coloured clean linen
69. A "barefoot doctor" from the Hong Shi production brigade, in northern China checks on the health of a mother and her chil in their home. When there is a choice between ancient herbal remedies and "Western" ones, many patients prefer traditional medicine
70. Village health workers attending a course on primary health care in Torodi, Niger. The teacher is a qualified male nurse. The new emphasis on training primary health workers stems from the realization that simply providing more physicians and more nurses will not solve the health problems of devloping countries
71. Immunize and protect your child
72. Prevention is essential to protect life and there is no substitute for vaccination and immunization
73. For these boys at an Indian school, early preventive treatment for incipient trachoma will probably safeguard their young eyesight for a whole lifetime
74. Under careful supervision, this Sudan schoolboy is treating his classmates' eyes for trachoma. This will ensure that treatment countinues after the trachoma control team leaves the district
75. This little boy is having an eye check-up which should ensure that any threat to his sight is recognized in time and prevented. Many thousands of less fortunate children go blind unnecessarily every year for want of simple precautions or low-cost treatment
76. The silver screen flickers in the Indian night. Television can convey a particularly vivid health message, but most developing countries sets are rare outside the large towns
77. Cholera can thrive where poverty, overcrowding and primitive sanitation are found together, as in this Asian city
78. An eye-test in the open air for villagers in a small Sudanese community
79. This photos, or rather composite of a series of photographs, shows isotopes revealing the inner geography of the body. Isotopes reorded in photographic form cna show where vitamins or medicines are distributed, or in come cases where blockage occurs. These photographs were taken by a scintillation camera
80. Radio-iodine test for thyroid in the Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine, Heidelberg
81. An injection of iodine 131 to observe concentration in the kidneys
82. A "glove box" in the plant for handling radioactive waste
83. ... resuscitation by mouth to mouth respiration
84. Air nurses in the early days of aviation
85. Workers trained in antiradiation relief measures
86. ... one of the first parachute nurses
87. [A specially trained mountain rescue dog]
88. The first parachute nurses
89. 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
90. Cave rescue teams
91. Trained Ayurvedic practitioners treating a girl with rheumatoid arthritis. Medical ethics today has ceased to be a matter for physicians alone,but is rather the concern of the whole community
92. A therapist trying to restore the use of a patient's rheumatic fingers
93. Miss G. learns again to eat by herself, using a specially designed spoon
94. Towards rehabilitation
95. Sudanese washing their feet in canal water. A correlation has been detected between the incidence of urinary bladder cancers and schistosomiasis (bilharziasis) infection - caused by a water-borne parasite- in some river valley areas
96. Studying the parasite of the disease at the Institute for Schistosomiasis Research, Cairo University
97. People become infected with schistosomiasis when bathing and washing in irrigation canals
98. One of several cases found in Zaire in 1970 which the Moscow laboratory was able to diagnose as monkeypox in humans
99. In Africa, eradication campaign was accomplished by a kind of cooperation that transcended all language barriers and local traditions
100. This was smallpox. The world will never again witness the suffering that was caused by the various virus
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