Irrigation plant illustrated for tropical ulcer

Illustration depicts the rigging for a constant saline drip for washing ulcers. Pictured are the drip saline bottle, irrigation plant and drip saline tin suspended from a rope. Below is a bamboo platform with a tripod and a lower limb resting on a bamboo support.

Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thailand to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. Chalker secretly made drawings of the various camps and conditions endured by the prisoners. He drew and painted on whatever materials he could find or steal from the Japanese, hiding his work in sections of bamboo buried in the ground, the attap roofs of huts, or the artificial legs worn by amputees in the hospital camps. His work provides a candid and moving record of the prisoners' suffering.