Postage stamps ephemera. Box 8A.
- Ephemera
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Description
Box file containing postage stamps, first day covers and postmarks on medical subjects in acid free sleeves. Stamps are dated with Stanley Gibbons number (where possible). Countries are: Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malagasy, Malawi, Malayan Federation, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali. Includes stamps about: Red Cross centenary (1963), Malaysian Red Crescent Society, blood donation, blood transfusion, ambulances, cancer prevention, disablility (including Beethoven - deaf, Van Gogh - epileptic, Homer - blind, Cervantes - amputee), disabled sports, x-rays, drug abuse, radiography, veterinary services, 16th Asian-Pacific dental Congress (1993), child health, leprosy and rehabilitation (Mali), AIDS, immunisation, malaria, measles, Fondation Raoul Follereau, drug addiction, tuberculosis, discovery of radium, poliomyelitis, Institut Marchoux (Mali), smallpox vaccination, Louis Braille, Sir Alexander Fleming, B.C.G. vaccine (Guerin and Calmette), typhoid (Karl Eberth).
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Subjects
- Malariaprevention & control
- Neoplasmsprevention & control
- Red Cross
- Penicillins
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
- Medicine, Chinese Traditional
- Child Welfare
- Physicians
- Vaccination
- Leprosy
- Plants, Medicinal
- Disabled Persons
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromeprevention & control
- Macau (China : Special Administrative Region)
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaya
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Avicenna, 980-1037.
- Braille, Louis, 1809-1852.
- Dunant, Henry, 1828-1910.
- Eberth, Carl Joseph, 1835-1926.
- Fleming, Alexander, Sir, 1881-1955.
- Follereau, Raoul.
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
- Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
- Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906.
- Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 1833-1896.
- Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965.
- Hansen, G. Armauer (Gerhard Armauer), 1841-1912.
- World Health Organization
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