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George Rodger - FRENCH GABON. Albert SCHWEITZER (FRA). 1951.

FRENCH GABON. Albert SCHWEITZER (FRA). 1951. - - George Rodger

FRENCH GABON. Lambrene. Nurse Trudi with some of the Leper patients. 1951.

FRENCH GABON. Albert SCHWEITZER (FRA). 1951. - FRENCH GABON. (Now known as Gabon). Lambarene. Dr Albert Schweitzer. The waterfront of Dr. Schweitzer's hospital on the Ogowe river, four miles from Lambarene. Most patients arrive by dug-out canoe. 1951 - George Rodger

FRENCH GABON. (Now known as Gabon). Lambarene. Dr Albert Schweitzer. The waterfront of Dr. Schweitzer's hospital on the Ogowe river, four miles from Lambarene.

FRENCH GABON. Albert SCHWEITZER (FRA). 1951. - FRENCH GABON. (Now known as Gabon). Lambarene. Dr Albert Schweitzer. The work Dr. Schweitzer has done for lepers has made medical history. His leper village of 200 patients is located a short distance from the main hospital. New drugs, Diason and Promin, have produced remarkable cures but those with advanced stages of the disease are permanently diseased and crippled. A young Swiss nurse, Trudi Bochsler, works entirely with the lepers. In a short space of time she learnt most of their names and picked up their native dialects. 1951 - George Rodger

FRENCH GABON. (Now known as Gabon). Lambarene. Dr Albert Schweitzer. The work Dr. Schweitzer has done for lepers has made medical history. His leper village of ...

FRENCH GABON. (Now Gabon). Dr. Albert Schweitzer poses for artist Fritz Hug at the jungle hospital. 1951

FRENCH GABON. Albert SCHWEITZER (FRA). 1951. - FRENCH GABON. (Now Gabon). Dr. Albert Schweitzer in front of his simple wooden house at his jungle hospital. 1951 - George Rodger

FRENCH GABON. (Now Gabon). Dr. Albert Schweitzer in front of his simple wooden house at his jungle hospital. 1951

FRENCH GABON. Lambaréné. Leper with his home-made harp.

FRENCH GABON. Albert SCHWEITZER (FRA). 1951. - FRENCH GABON. Lambarene. At his writing desk in the small two room house. His kitten

FRENCH GABON. Lambarene. At his writing desk in the small two room house. His kitten "Pierrette" sits on his manuscript. 1951.

FRENCH GABON. Albert SCHWEITZER (FRA). 1951. - FRENCH GABON. Lambaréné. Swiss artist Fritz Hug painting Schweitzer's portrait. Albert stands in front of his simple two-room home at his jungle hospital. - George Rodger

FRENCH GABON. Lambaréné. Swiss artist Fritz Hug painting Schweitzer's portrait. Albert stands in front of his simple two-room home at his jungle hospital.

FRENCH GABON. Albert SCHWEITZER (FRA). 1951. - FRENCH GABON. Lambaréné. - George Rodger

FRENCH GABON. Lambaréné. Emma Haussknecht in the maternity ward under her charge. She has worked with Schweitzer since 1926.

FRENCH GABON. Albert SCHWEITZER (FRA). 1951. - FRENCH GABON. Lambaréné. In his orchard, started on his arrival in Lamberene, and now supplies fruit for the hospitals and Europeans living nearby. - George Rodger

FRENCH GABON. Lambaréné. In his orchard, started on his arrival in Lamberene, and now supplies fruit for the hospitals and Europeans living nearby.

FRENCH GABON. Albert SCHWEITZER (FRA). 1951. - FRENCH GABON. Lambaréné. Waterfront entrance to his hospital on the Ogowe River. He is standing in a dug-out canoe, his usual means of transport. His oarsmen are all lepers. - George Rodger

FRENCH GABON. Lambaréné. Waterfront entrance to his hospital on the Ogowe River. He is standing in a dug-out canoe, his usual means of transport. His oarsmen ar

FRENCH GABON. 1951. French doctor (philosopher and musician) Albert SCHWEITZER in Lambarene where he had set up a clinic in 1913.

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