Medications and medical tools were donated by dozens of organizations including Pfizer, which donated the majority of the medications used.
Bones, whose improvised medical tools are barely up to the task.
Reassuringly, SARS appears to have been controlled mainly through one of the oldest of medical tools: isolation.
Health insurers are part of the problem here: they reliably cover prescription narcotics, but not necessarily these other medical tools.
Isolation must be one of the oldest medical tools, and in some ways it is one of the most brutal.
"We have the medical tools, so long as doctors will test their patients and monitor them," Mr. Fang said.
They were raised in Jacksonville, Fla., where they taught themselves to make jewelry from their father's old medical tools.
It supports the development of affordable and accurate medical tools and invests in vaccines to prevent infectious diseases.
These were medical tools, though, miniature plaster casts used to treat infants born with clubfoot, a crippling birth defect.
A new disease, SARS, turned the hospital mask into a fashion accessory, but was quickly contained through the most old-fashioned of medical tools: quarantine.
Lillian Stillwell had her clothes surgically removed by four other dancers wielding actual medical tools, followed by some artsy posing in the nude by her and Mr. Bradley.
