Medical Technology and Procedures in Stamps
These stamps illustrate recognizable instruments of medicine, such as the microscope and stethescope, and more recent procedures, such as the pap smear and pasteurization. Click on any of the images to enlarge. |
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Christmas set of 14th century paintings from prayerbook of Robert De Lisle. Includes “The Circumcision.” Cook Islands, 1970. |
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Eradication of Smallpox campaign. Brazil, 1978. |
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Microscopes from the Carl Zeiss Foundation Museum. German Democratic Republic, 1980. |
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George N. Papanicolaou (1883-1962) described the role of vaginal smear in cancer in 1928. United States, 1978. |
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Louis Pasteur 1822-1895) father of modern bacteriology and psteurization. France, 1973. |
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Rene Laënnec (1781-1826) for his work in auscaltation of the heart and invention of the stethescope in 1819. France, 1976. |
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Crawford W. Long, (1815-1878), first to recognize anesthetic property of ether. United States, 1940. |
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Theodore Billroth (1829-1910), gastroesophageal surgeon. Austria, 1994. |