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- The apathy and sadness of malnutrition. This girl in a hospital in Jordan is suffering from a severe protien- calorie deficiency1
- The call to the hospital1
- 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 diabetics1
- The child should still be breast-fed until he is two-years-old. This is our tradition. It is good we should keep it1
- The chiropodist is a medical auxiliary qualified to treat superficial foot complaints such as ingrown toenails, callouses ans corns, which can make walking an agony1
- The coast guard keeps a strict watch1
- The crutch that cripples. This Soviet poster reads:"In drinking somebody else's health, you risk harming your own."1
- 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-killers1
- The dispensary of Barasat Court Compound, east of Calcutta: emergency rehydration of cholera patients1
- The doctor takes throat swabs for laboratory examination1
- The drug ward in English psychiatric hospital. Spells of illness and confinement usually from a large part of a drug user's life1
- The dull patch in a victim's eye shows where the parasitic worm transmitted by the black-fly's bite has caused irreparable damage. The only real answer to onchocerciasis is to wipe out the fly wherever there are human settlements1
- The electron microscope - one of the wonders of modern technology1
- The entrance to Health Centre 71 in the Leningradskaya district1
- The epidemic attacks mainly children and young people1
- The face of desperation. River blindness has robbed this west African not merely of his sight but much of his earning power at an age when he should have been making his greatest contribution to the community1
- The first parachute nurses1
- The fixed-wing aeroplane can make accurate insecticide drops at 60 mph over open stretches of river1
- The health worker skillfully administers a local anaesthetic which will ensure that the forthcoming cataract operation is painless1
- 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 experimentation1