This film features a pregnant couple named John and Liza Lloyd. They live with Liza's parents, and John works with his father-in-law raising chickens. One day, John and Liza get in a fight, and John gets drunk and has an affair with a bartender named Nell. Soon after, Liza tells John that she's pregnant, and Nell learns that she has syphilis. The public health nurse encourages Nell to contact the people with whom she recently had sexual relations, but she never learned John's name and consequently had no way of contacting him.

Profiles a National Institutes of Health study of infectious diseases that can cause abnormal pregnancy outcomes in women. Outcomes include stillbirth, abortion, and birth defects. Fifty thousand pregnant women and their infants participated in the Collaborative Perinatal Research Project, a joint effort of several institutes at NIH. Blood is drawn regularly from mother and child and tested. The laboratory procedures and other workflows are shown and described in some detail.

This film, produced by Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, explains the corporation's approach to company-provided medical services for employees in its hundreds of locations around the world. Because climate, culture, and type and prevalence of disease vary so widely, tailored approaches are called for. The Standard Oil program is described as a four-point effort: preventive, constructive, educative, and curative medicine.

This film produced by the Firestone Plantations Company recounts efforts by the government of Liberia, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, and the Liberian Institute of the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine to improve the health and nutritional status of Liberian citizens, particularly those working on rubber plantations. The program notes that a healthy work force is necessary both for the betterment of Liberia and for the economic success of companies operating rubber, coffee, and other plantations in the country.

Historical Audiovisuals from the National Library of Medicine Tuberculosis (TB), while rare in the United States today, remains a potent killer in developing nations. In the U.S. in the mid-20th century, the impact of TB was real and devastating. In this 1944 film, farmer Peter Borik has tuberculosis but refuses to be treated in a sanatorium. He remains bedridden at home, where no precautions are taken against the spread of infection. Both his daughters contract TB, and one dies.

A dramatized story about a town where illegal activities are allowed to thrive, some of the politicians are dishonest, and a doctor and couple of colleagues try to help townspeople see that public health measures, especially those that might control syphilis, are necessary. Two of the most influential men in town oppose clean-up and public health efforts until their young adult children contract syphilis. Spliced into the dramatic film are segments of other educational films, including animated segments, that describe the symptoms and risks of syphilis.

The symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of diabetes are outlined in the story of a young, small-town wife, her family, her physician, and some of the townspeople. Myths about diabetes are debunked. Guidelines for living a normal life while coping with diabetes are given. Insulin therapy is promoted when appropriate.

Over footage of young people in school, in social situations, in a physician's office, and in a public health department office, the symptoms, mode of transmission, and dangers of gonorrhea and syphilis are presented. The necessity of contacting sexual partners is stressed, and the emotional distress this can cause is illustrated. The folly of ignoring symptoms and of using patent medicines is explained. The viewer is urged to eschew promiscuous sexual activity.

Contains footage produced by Merck Sharp and Dohme (known as Merck and Company in the United States) of the United States Division of Biologics Standards (DBS) conducting testing of the world's first mumps vaccine, which MSD developed. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101631749.

Video focuses on the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in combating disease, beginning with an overview of how disease has afflicted and shaped human civilization. It mentions the unsuccessful effort to stamp out malaria, and WHO's successful campaign to eradicate smallpox. The 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata, which set a goal of health for all by the year 2000, is discussed, along with WHO's vision of community-based cadres of health care workers delivering primary care to underserved populations.

Proper handwashing procedure for hospital staff is demonstrated by a uniformed nurse. After the hands and forearms have been washed and rinsed, the fingernails are cleaned with a toothpick, and a lotion is rubbed on the hands to prevent irritation. Handwashing in hospitals is an important step in limiting the spread of pathogens, especially staphylococcus. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8800515A.

This filmograph is designed to impart general information regarding malaria, its cause, transmission, and prevention. In a series of still images, this film describes the danger posed by malaria and its transmission by mosquitoes. A family is stricken with the disease, and a doctor comes to examine them and provide treatment. A health officer later visits to advise the family on ways to prevent future infections. Additionally, the community must take steps to eliminate the mosquitoes. Produced by the United States Public Health Service.

This film emphasizes the necessity of the early diagnosis of syphilis, its clinical manifestations, and modes of treatment by reputable sources. It points out the danger of improper treatment by quacks. This film presents methods for prevention of syphilis, blood-testing to determine if infection has occurred, and treatment for a diagnosed infection. It recommends that a blood test for syphilis take place at every routine medical exam, and that pregnant women be tested so that transmission of the disease to the unborn child can be avoided.

This video traces the changes and growth of the United States Public Health Service from its authorization by John Adams in 1798 as the Marine Hospital Service to its reorganization in the 1970s. Still photographs and film clips are presented along with a detailed narrative history.

This program is the narrated version of the 1926 film, T.B. Sanitorium and Preventorium. The narrator, Walter L. Zeigler, was a patient at the South Mountain Restoration Center in South Mountain, Pennsylvania, as a child in 1939 through 1940 and later worked there as an adult. He provides insight and stories of therapies, patients, and the nurses who worked there. His narration covers the entire film that shows, not only tuberculosis patients, but shows healthy children being institutionalized to prevent them from contracting tuberculosis or other diseases.