- 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 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
- The hospital serves as a collection point for herbs, leaves and other ingredients, man of which are cultivated in nearby commune gardens1
- The large regional hospitals employ modern, expensive equipment1
- The last case of smallpox on the Asian sub-continent, discovered on 16 October 1975, was a little girl living in Bangladesh. This was also the last known case of the more virulent form of smallpo, variola major1
- The machine that will take over the functions of the patient's heart and lungs during the operation1
- The main entrance hall of the Royal Infirmary1
- The needle is still in motion; the surgeons have opened up the chest and are probing for the tumor1
- 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"1