Titles
- A group of young European males engaged in a drinking bout1
- A happy mother and a happy child in a health centre at Francistown, Botswana. A combination which throughout the ages has been the hallmark of a satisfactory quality of life1
- A laboratory at Babol, Iran, where work on a WHO cancer project is in progress1
- A laminar flow hood ensures sterile conditions as tissue cultures are being prepared at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at Lyon-France. IRAC carries out reasearch in carcinogenesis for WHO1
- A lesson in dental care in Thailand. Prevention of tooth decay in childhood is of major importance1
- A modern European pharmacy1
- A modern anatomy chart for Chinese medical students shows the acupuncture points and meridians1
- A modern malady - the over-consumption of drugs1
- 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