On january 9th stated the only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wait total peace, in this day of great concern with our Social Security and peace this Program Documents a power some of us often overlook, it is the forceful good it lies in the basic rather head man. In my travels around the world i have often observed how a hand outstretched and friendship a heart full of goodwill can do more to win the affection and support of people and all than all the guns an arsenal the program you are about to see demonstrates this. It is a story about american doctors fighting disease in distant remote regions of the world helping fellow human beings to a better life. 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 their industry, for example, our people can create a beneficial climate for greater international understanding. And this is so essential to all our hopes for world peace. Because our doctors abroad so bolster these hopes, we can regard their work as that of unofficial american ambassadors. And at a time when we hear much of mans inhumanity to man, they reveal our greatest hope for the future, mens humanity to man. That is why what you are about to see is so important to all of us. These are the changing patterns of the face of mankind. From the lips of such as these, in 100 strange languages comes a distant unending pride for the ceased from pain and preservation of life, today we mark some who answer that call american doctors on alien shores whose dedication to humanity lights up our hope for peace and understanding in the far corners 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 all kin, one a member of the other. This is the outline of the people of korea. Whatever happens to these people defies boundaries in various to affect people everywhere. Street markets or supermarkets, 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 put on boots to giant strides across foreign lands 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, burma, sarawi, india, if you appear. But first, first, here in the valley, see whos back is closed 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 huts and shanties, the homeless from the streets. Refugees swept south by the communist tyranny in north korea. Their wait, only the opening of the gate they await only the opening of the gate. And now, to reap in a days 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] then along the line to extract the seriously ill, that they may be cared for all at once. Foreign language] foreign language] [children crying] foreign language] foreign language] [children crying] foreign language] a bond of pain have all record 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. We treat them the best we can and send them home we treat them the best we can and send them home. We have several korean nurses on our staff. You will see them working inside to take care of these people. Sister mary, 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 her back into a cast which will 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. Sister maria from marquette medical school. Foreign language] this 53yearold lady was 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 has gotten along well until now. She has severe symptoms 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. 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 a temperature of 104. 6. We found 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 one month and malnutrition 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. 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 a patient with tuberculosis. Picking her way up in a rugged hillside, there is a front and backyard for hundreds must live in tents, or with only an oil tin roof over their heads. Her tb patient may be saved the exhaustive journey to the clinic for treatment. [chatter] foreign language] foreign language] 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. Foreign language] in foreign language] in foreign language] music now en route to another patient, the sister and her nurse. Thus is one day done, one day ended. America is 6000 miles away, and 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 in the shadow of red china to 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 people of hong kong from the sea. They call this island the i love happy healing the isle of happy healing. Now a small lunch comes now a small launch 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 china representative, helped welcome them to the island. The 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 up on the bone, studying bone changes responsible for much of the crippling, and finally, they come not to be afraid of treating the patients themselves. Thus 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. Of boats on the 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. And that was careful research, 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. music 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. 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, and his colleagues on ha li king chao. Southward to the equator now in the archipelago, this area in northwest borneo. These are former headhunters. The patients of still another american doctor who has carried his talents far from home. Tribesmen, 213 dozen of tribesmen, 213 thousand 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 raised where the doctor, a methodist missionary, has settled down and opened his black bag. Our Health Problems here in saearawa 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 in our long boats to the longhouses and live with them three or four days at a time. Foreign language] 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. Such is dr. Brewsters medical work in sorrow where he 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. I the air is filled with got prayerful chants for rain. The sun purchased the land. Keep things winking wonder Rudyard Kiplings winking wonder of the east. With even the general hospital. And in its wards. The patient is dr. Green, Orthopedic Surgeon in charge. But they dont know how he went from harvard to eight turkey, it was year spent at eight 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 eight college, whose patient, a buddhist monk, is affected eight with a tumor, a disease eight diagnosed as in urological neuro at 15 curing the war, he was hit by an exploding bomb, and took his left leg below the knee. A piece of shrapnel, causing a midthigh chronic eight drainage, must be removed. The doctor studies the eight xrays in anticipation of the operation he plans. Eight as he scrubs, his thoughts go back to the stories told to him of searching for help in vain. Of his visit 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. This to be followed by revision of the stump, repairing the painful bony spur at its end. Eight 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. Eight and now, after the casting and the measuring, and the straightening through physiotherapy, comes the most eight exciting day he has ever known, where once with only one leg, now are two. One artificial and eight strapcontrolled, to go with the one that is flesh and blood. Eight and with the man who made eight it possible. He walks. And at last, in answer to eight the buddhist chant, the long eight thirsty earth he moves along, drinks of rain. Eight eight eight eight music [music] music mus ic this time, northwest saw the march of medicine, above the lands mass that is india to remote nepal, at the roof of the world. To this himalayan kingdom, whose surrounding areas have long been sealed from the rest of the world, yes, to this place to, have eight come american doctors, to kathmandu, capital of the land of the gods, lying in the valley crossed by a eight sacred river, rich with a forest of shrines dedicated to the sheba the destroyer, and buddha. music [music] music mus ic we came here from india, in 1953. My husband had been here previously for the chicago Natural History museum. Youre listening to dr. Fleming of bucks county, pennsylvania. We became very attached to nepal, learned to like the people very much, and were delighted when 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 forceps and stethoscope. Our first hospital was part of this old cholera hospital. Thats all that was available. Then we moved here, where we have since grown to include two 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 while he was making a journey about eight days from here. Poor thing had club feet and was literally walking on her ankles. He sent her to us with a message to do what we could for her. Look at her now. This man is a sherpa porter. He was a guide for a british climbing expedition. Three men were lost, buried by an avalanche. This fellow lost his footing. He fell 200 feet. [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] the eyes of this mountain land, and the eyes of the allseeing consciousness, are fixed on the himalayas beyond with kathmandu. Snowcrowned, the highest of them, the names conjure a spell. Challenging their foothills and preceded by porters carrying supplies and camera equipment, the 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 rocky, winding trail, toward a town called tansin. The paths cut into the no mountainsides are known as well he calls it home. Time and again, with only 90 a pack on his back, he must travel them as his highway to reach a patient in need. Often, return with him up the steep slopes to his hospital. Meudz music [music] music mu sic this is tansin, astride the trail to tibet. And this is dr. Fredriks hospital. In this isolated area, north to tibet and who knows how far beyond, there is no other modern hospital. Later, the doctor diagnosed his case as black fever, a flyborne 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 little boy, who no different than any child anywhere, broke an arm falling out of a tree. And finally, tending a man severely burned when he rushed into his flaming house to save what belongings he could. On the way to his semiannual checkup of the school children, dr. Fredrik passes through the marketplace of tansin, streets that have never, incidentally, known the wheel. Meets there a young lady whose broken wrist he once repaired. He continues on, greeted with a friendly shake of the head by those who have come to know meaning of the word doctor. music [music] music music gradually, some kind of order is restored, as the doctor tackles his first customer. Scabies, tb, malnutrition. These are diseases the doctor looks for, 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 listen with his magic earpiece. These strange wonders come to their himalayan hills are payment enough. And so. From mouth to ears, with the head master looking on approvingly, the checkup happily continues. music [music] music mus ic but finally, with his assistants help, the work is concluded. And turning over the records until next time, the doctor moves from one of the most pleasant aspects of his remote practice to confront a more serious challenge. From the distant countryside, miles away, comes one dread word. Cholera. On the only 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 gove