- A moment of discomfort - but it will ensure that he will never suffer: the wasting disease of tuberculosis. Vaccination must be a regular feature of child care, preferably under a program which forms an integral part of any country's health services1
- A pacemaker to prevent heart block is bbeing passed into the patient's right ventricle while the checks its position on the x-ray screen1
- A pan dealer in Bombay1
- A patient being treated in a Sudanese hospital for sleeping sickness. The disease is caused by one ot the parasites whose life-cycles we need to understand better if we are to contol them1
- 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 Ayurveda1
- A pest that causes all the trouble. A close-up of the blackfly, Simulium damnosum, feeding on human blood1
- A pharmacist shows her collection of dried frogs and lizards. When powered and drunk in wine or water, they are said to be effective against diseases of respiratory tract1
- A preventable disease - river blindness - cost this man his sight1
- A recent method of diagnosing detachment of the retina by examining the eyeground with a three-mirror glass devised by Professor Goldman of Berne, Switzerland1
- A routine check-up for a diabetes sufferer1
- A specially equipped ambulance linked by radio to the coronary care unit of a hospital. Energency treatment can be started immediatley1
- A sturdy- looking six-year-old child of the Turkana. The scars on his abdomen testify to blood-letting rituals1
- A syphilis patient1
- A therapist trying to restore the use of a patient's rheumatic fingers1
- A throat operation kept alive this little Indonesian victim of diphtheria - still one of the lethal communicable diseases1
- A traditional doctor examines her patient's tongue and makes her diagnosis1
- 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 cry1
- A victim of onchoceriasis, not yet 40 years old, being led by a child1
- A view of Haifa1
- A woman "paramedic" tests the tetanus case for serum hypersensitivity before starting the emergency treatment that will save her life1