I am pleased to introduce it because i believe full heartedly in what it has to say. President eisenhower in his state of the union stated, the way answer to imaging that just cold war is to wage total peace. In this day of great concern with weapons and or search for security and peace, this Program Documents a power some of us often overlooked. It is the force for good that lies in the basic brotherhood of man. In my travels around the world, i have often observed how a hand outstretched in friendship, a heart full of goodwill can do more to win the affection of people. The program you are about to see the mistakes this. It is a story of american doctors fighting disease in their most remote regions of the world. Through their humane work, they are making a positive contribution to the structure of peace. Of course, there are other ways to strengthen the bonds of friendship throughout the world. By helping other nations to improve their agriculture, their commerce, and other industries. For example, our people can create a beneficial climate for greater international understanding. This is so essential to all of our hopes for world peace. Soause our doctors abroad bolster these hopes, we can regard their work as that of an ambassadors. Ican and at a time when we hear much of mans inhumanity to man they reveal our greatest hope of the future, mans humanity to man. That is why would you are about to see is so important to all of us. Narrator these are the changing climates of the face of mankind. From the lips of such as these, in a hundred strange languages, comes an unending cry for release from pain and preservation of life. Today we meet some who answer that call, american doctors on indian shores, whose dedication to humanity, lights up our hope for peace and understanding in the far corners. Narrator the map of the world is more than these and continents, it is as world outline of its peoples, each colored by the creator with a distant crayon but more ak in, one a member of the other. Outline of the people of korea. Theseer happens to people defies boundaries in various to affect people everywhere. Supermarkets, or such differences mean far less than our basic similarities. And what alone holds the promise of healing our divided world is our concern, one for the other. The story we bring you is of a special breed of men inspired by that concerned, love of their fellow man. It is the tale of American Physicians who have it on boots to giant strides across foreign and pause at the bedside of the world to lift disease from the backs of the family of man. We will meet of them not only in korea but in hong kong, berlin, rawi, india, if you appear. But first, first, here in the is closede whos back in the robes of the sisters. She and the sisters who live here are devoted to the sick, the lame, the blind, and to this their clinic, come the troubled ones. Look upon their faces and read for yourself their stories. The poor from the hats and shanties, the homeless from the streets. Refugees swept south by the communist tyranny in north korea. Their weight, only the opening of the gate they await only the opening of the gate. And now, to reap in a daze harvest of illness, nurtured in the overcrowded city the low, former patients under continuing care present the token of their previous visit and pass inside. [chatter] [baby crying] narrator then along the line to extract the seriously ill, that they may be cared for all at once. [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [children crying] [speaking foreign language] narrator a bond of pain have all in common, the innocent, the the infant, the wrinkled grandmother, and the wideeyed innocent child. It often strike them down as they wait. Thus is an act of the prelude to the day ahead of the nurse reports to the superior. I have one little boy here i have to bring in. We have seen more than 1000 patients today coming through these gates, before we close them at 5 30. With every imaginable disease. We have no hospital, though we are building one now. Trish them the best we can and send them home we treat them the best we can and send them home. We have several korean announces on our staff. You will see them working inside to take care of these people. 60 are married, from the Womens Medical College of philadelphia, home, york, pennsylvania. This little 14yearold girl was carried on the back of her grandmother from the country to treatment. She has a case of tuberculosis of the bone. We plan to treat her by putting which willto a cast prevent further crippling deformity of the bone. It will also of the v8 the severe pain which she now has, not only from the back but also from the abscess here. As well as supplementary treatment with milk, food and vitamins, we hope to have this little girl walking and playing like other children. Narrator sister maria from marquette medical school. [speaking foreign language] washis 53yearold lady brought to our clinic this morning. She is had in the past week, severe symptoms of Heart Failure with a history of Heart Disease since she was 30 years of age. She has had eight children and untiltten along well now. She has severe it be more of all extremities, enlarged liver and a heart with a murmur. We hope to be able to help this lady somewhat, but her prognosis in general is very poor. Narrator sister lewis, marquette medical school. Home, hudson falls, new york. She was brought to our clinic at approximately one month ago by his mother. The childs initial problem was one of infectious diarrhea. At the time of admission, he had. Temperature of 104. 6 refund however that the diarrhea and infections were a secondary problem. The child has been on his right side for approximately one month and his mother trish and is his major problem. We are continuing to feed the child for a few weeks until he is able to take food by mouth. In a month or two, he should look normal and healthier. Narrator as the day wears on and medications are dispensed, the city beyond beckons the sisters with their healing powers. Each afternoon, sister mary, accompanied by a korean nurse and immaculate in her white robes, plunders into the squalor of this suddenly expanded city on the home visit to efficient with tuberculosis. Taking her way up in a rugged hillside, there is a front and backyard for hundreds must live an oils, or with only tin roof over their heads. Her tb patient may be saved the exhaustive journey to the clinic for treatment. [chatter] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] narrator in this one room is for the entire family, living room, dining room, bedroom, kitchen. Not only is the mother sick with tb, but already father and child showed traces of following her through the same stretch of road but for this help. [speaking foreign language] [chatter in foreign language] route to now en another patient, the sister and her nurse. Bus is 1 thus is one day done, one day ended. Away, and 6000 miles in their spirit, and in their hearts. Moving south and west across the china sea, the march of medicine vaults in the shed already china to visit another american doctor china to shadow of red visit another american doctor. In hong kong, for centuries, they said to one another, if leprosy can be cured, salted fish can live again. But here in 1946 appears another apologist a young pathologist from chicago. He runs the committee to fight leprosy until finally not far from this communist island, the from theng kong sea. They call this island the i love happy healing the isle of happy healing. Now a small lunch comes bearing an interesting cargo. Final year medical students brought to break down their preconceived notions of leprosy by the man from chicago, whose inspiration of the island was. He reminds them that the disease is not mysterious. Punishment from the gods, not venereal, not inherited, but scientifically explained and medically treatable. Here, the doctor will lead them for a week. The island will be a classroom, and International Staff their teachers, before he returns to review and summarize their findings. The next day, the students are greeted by superintendent dr. Neil fraser who has china representative who as the helpedepresentative made welcome them to the island. Disease, which dr. Fraser explains, as he points out some of its features, rarely if ever kills by itself. And of all the Infectious Diseases we know, one of the least catching. Choosing children housed on the island, he declares children the most susceptible to the ravages of the disease, which is often passed to them on contact. The students settled onto a weeks labor, learning to overcome their fear of the disease by taking smears of patients to confirm the diagnosis of leprosy. Examining the bacilli breaking bone, studying bone changes responsible for much of the crippling, and finally, they come not to be afraid of treating the patients themselves. Does each day bring a new understanding of the disease, as the students come ultimately in sight and sound of bolton harbor to sit with dr. Douglas harman of the island staff. One thing i want you to keep up to the most of your mind is that modern medicine can help these patients. Research,as careful the progress of that we have made in the treatment of leprosy during the last 1520 years has made it strides than in all the centuries before. This is a picture of a patient with [indiscernible] now i want to show you something. This is the same patient that you see in the picture there after a few years of treatment. I think you will agree that with our modern drugs and with what we know about the disease now, that there is a real hope for recovery and for a useful life, and that this man is well on the way. I would like you to remember this man went someday someone looking as he did before treatment comes into your office. Narrator later, they watch the rehearsal of the lepers production of the classical opera as they await the return of the doctor who brought them, their fears now dispelled by knowledge. So that when at last the time comes to return to school as students, they come to recognize these sufferers as human beings who can benefit from the same medical science they apply to other patients. Thanks to the young doctor who came to hong kong from chicago, i kings colleagues on ha chao. Now inrd to the equal or the archipelago, this area in northwest borneo. Headhunters. Mer the patients of still another american doctor who has carried his talents far from home. Tribesmen, 213 dozen of them, living among the orangutans, the cobras, in a steaming equatorial jungle that is sarawa. Here along the river, in the land of the long boats, the mangroves, the forest has been cleared in the hospital razed where the doctor, a methodist missionary, has settled down and opened his black bag. Our Health Problems here in rawa are threefold. The number one problem is malaria. The World Health Organization has a group here carrying out a campaign of ddt to eliminate this problem. The second round and we have here is tuberculosis. We are collaborating with the government by case finding and treatment of cases we find with streptomycin, and imh, which the government supplies us with. The third biggest problem is intestinal parasites and dysenteries. Of course, this is tied in with lack of sanitation and ignorance of the rules of good health. We feel that it doesnt really solve anything to have these nations just come to the hospital and get treatment. So we have a team which goes out composed of a doctor, a Public Health nurse, a helper and a driver. We go out regularly and are long boats to the longhouses and live with them three or four days at a time. [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] and besides treating their patients, we teach them the rules of health and hygiene, which will enable them to live healthier lives. We do this by showing movies of health films and just sitting down with them in the evenings and talking to them and explaining to them how they can be healthier. Narrator such is dr. Brewsters heical work in sorrow where struggles to bring the likes of a promise of modern medicine. North and west travels empty international, skirting thailand in the gulf of siam on his way to rangoon, burma. With prayerfuled chants forrain rain. The sun purchased the land. Things winking wonder Rudyard Kiplings winking wonder of the east. Even the general hospital. And in its wards. Is dr. Green, Orthopedic Surgeon in charge. But they dont know how he went turkey, it was year spent at harvard medical college. He is visiting professor at the university of rangoon, often consulting with his burmese colleagues, such as the dean of the medical college, whose patient, a buddhist monk, is affected with a tumor, a disease diagnosed as in urological neuro war, he was the hit by an exploding bomb, and his left leg below the knee. Apiece of shrapnel, causing midthigh chronic drainage, must be removed. Studies the xrays in anticipation of the operation he plans. As he scrubs, his thoughts go the stories told to him of searching for he in vain. To a spirit woman in the hills, seeking a miracle that never came. The despair of never walking again. The plan is clear. First, to remove the shrapnel. Revisione followed by of the stump, repairing the painful bony spur at its end. This done, on to the next step, preparing for an artificial limb. The doctor watches with hope mounting, the making of the mold of his stump. But actually, far more than that. The overture, so to speak, for what most of us accept as a matter of course. Life on two feet. After the casting and the measuring, and the straightening through comes the most exciting day he has ever known, with only one leg, now are two. One artificial and strapcontrolled, to go with the one that is flesh and blood. And with the man who made it possible. He walks. And at last, in answer to the the long thirsty earth he moves along, drinks of rain. [music] this time, northwest saw the march of medicine, above the is india tothat remote nepal, at the roof of the world. Kingdom, whosean surrounding areas have long been of thefrom the rest world, yes, to this place to, have come american doctors, to kathmandu, capital of the land valleygods, lying in the crossed by a sacred river, rich of shrinesst dedicated to the destroyer, and buddha. [music] india, in here from 1953. My husband had been here previously for the chicago Natural History museum. Toyoure listening dr. Fleming of bucks county, pennsylvania. We became very attached to learned to like the people very much, and were the government asked us to set up a medical program for maternal and child care. I arrived with only a Little Pocket set of instruments, just an obstacle foraccepts and a and stethoscope. Our first hospital was part of cholera hospital. Thats all that was available. Then we moved here, where we to include twon womens wards and a mens wards. Wandering the hospital grounds, dr. Fleming finds time for a couple of favorite patients. This is maya. She was discovered by the king a journeyas making about eight days from here. Feet and wasd Club Literally walking on her ankles. Us with a message to do what we could for her. Look at her now. This man is a sherpa porter. For a british climbing expedition. Buried bywere lost, an avalanche. This fellow lost his footing. 200 feet. [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] this mountain land, and the eyes of the consciousness, are fixed on the himalayas beyond kathmandu. Snowcrowned, the highest of spell. He names conjure a foothills andeir preceded by porters carrying supplies and camera equipment, march of medicine, in search of still another american doctor, perhaps more remote and inaccessible than any, moved for two days on foot along this trail, toward a town all thed tansin. The paths cut into the noun as heare calls it home. Packand again, with only a on his back, he must travel them as his highway to reach a need. T in often, return with him up the steep slopes to his hospital. [music]eud this is tansin, astride the trail to tibet. Is dr. Fredriks hospital. In this isolated area, north to tibet and who knows how far is no other modern hospital. Doctor diagnosed his a flybornek fever, disease often affecting the liver and spleen. In his primitively equipped ward, he makes the rounds with his nurse, seeing first a tb patient, then encouragement to a who no different than any child anywhere, broke an arm falling out of a tree. Finally, tending a man severely burned when he rushed house to saveng what belongings he could. On the way to his semiannual the school children, dr. Fredrik passes through the marketplace, treats that have never, incidentally, known the wheel. Young lady whose broken wrist he once repaired. He continues on, greeted with a friendly shake of the head by to knowo have come meaning of the word doctor. [music] gradually, some kind of order is restored, as the doctor tackles his first customer. Tb, malnutrition. These are diseases the doctor noting any evidence of them in a record book and following up later with his recommendations. As for the children, a doctor to feast their eyes upon, to thump their chest with his fingers and earpiece. H his magic these strange wonders come to hills arelayan payment enough. And so. From mouth to ears, with the looking on the checkup happily continues. [music] with hisnally, assistants help, the work is concluded. And turning over the records next time, the doctor moves from one of the most remotet aspects of his practice to confront a more serious challenge. From the distant countryside, miles away, comes one dread word. Cholera. Means of Rapid Movement in this area go the doctor and his aid for the twoday journey out to a village in the path of the oncoming disease. They pause at the site of the doctors new hospital, being built on land donated by the government, land no one else wanted because of the name. The wedding place of the ghosts. Thrauush on, passing settlement through a settlement en route. And finally, after a night on reach the they village threatened by the applyic and prepare to modern medicine as the barrier between it and the ancient disease. As the young and curious look the inoculations get under way. Each protective injection amusingly saluted. But as always when he visits a more than one is thing to concern the doctor. Here, for example, a child gored a bull. As one village is made safe as medicine can help make scourge of the cholera, the long trip home begins again. Later, as night begins to fall, and the winds promise a storm, they hasten to the protection of a rude shelter. Here will doctor fredrik sleep. Asthe mountains of nepal, far from redding, pennsylvania, as a man can be. And now, president of smith french laboratories, mr. Francis boyer. How do you do . Were seeing a really inspiring story. Story being wr