Here we endeavour to list as comprehensively as possible the stamps and postmarks issued in August 2024 that relate to medicine. This is also to provide material for corresponding thematic philately. Stamps mainly found on colnect.com.

Egas Moniz, Neuroscientist (1874-1955)

  • Country: Portugal
  • Issued on: 2024-08-06
  • Size: 30.6 x 40 mm
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Pedro Martins (P) | Túlio Coelho
  • Printers: Cartor Security Printing
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Perforation: Syncopated 12 x 12¼
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: 0.65 € – Euro
  • Print run: 70,000

In 1935, António Egas Moniz performed the lobotomy for the first time to treat severe mental disorders. The procedure irreversibly severed connections in the brain and was intended to have a calming effect. He thus founded psychosurgery. Despite later criticism of severe side effects – such as the loss of emotional sensations – the method was widely used and Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949. Lobotomies were performed thousands of times, particularly in the USA, partly to correct behavior. With the development of modern psychotropic drugs, however, it became less important and is now considered a controversial chapter in the history of medicine.

Tulpé Therapeutic Spa, Birštonas

  • Country: Lithuania
  • Issued on: 2024-08-09
  • Size: 37.5 x 30 mm
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Aleksandro Lukjančukas
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: 1.55 € – Euro
  • Print run: 20,00

„Tulpės“ Spa is located beside a loop of the river Nemunas and is the first sanatorium established in Birštonas having long-lasting traditions of healing with mineral water and peat mud. The SPA has successfully combined traditional resort treatment with SPA ideas ( Lat. sanus per aqua ) and tailored them to clients with different needs. Treated are:  

  • Troubles in digestive system
  • Movement and backbone system troubles
  • Gynaecological troubles
  • Oncological troubles
  • Emotional and physical overwork – burn out

Badra Ben Mostapha Ouertani, Midwife

  • Country: Tunisia
  • Issued on: 2024-08-13
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Printers: Tunisia Post Printing House
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: 0.50 د.ت – Tunisian dinar
  • Print run: 10,000
  • Description: Stamp from mini sheet

Cherifa Fayache, Physician

  • Country: Tunisia
  • Issued on: 2024-08-13
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Printers: Tunisia Post Printing House
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: 0.50 د.ت – Tunisian dinar
  • Print run: 10,000
  • Description: Stamp from mini sheet.

Orpheus Beaumont, Rescue Service

  • Country: Jersey
  • Issued on: 2024-08-22
  • Size: 30 x 40 mm
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Kiera Melville
  • Printers: BPost Philately & Stamps Printing
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: 2.15 £ – Jersey pound

Orpheus Beaumont was born in Jersey in 1863. She suffered from a fear of drowning as a child and also lost a brother to drowning. Under the impression of the sinking of the Titanic, Orpheus dedicated herself to the development of a new type of lifejacket. After years of development work, her “Salvus” lifejacket (cotton jacket filled with water-repellent kapok fibers) was approved by the British authorities in 1918. Its use was only superseded by the self-inflating life jacket during the Second World War.

Marie Bartlett

  • Country: Jersey
  • Issued on: 2024-08-22
  • Size: 30 x 40 mm
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Kiera Melville
  • Printers: BPost Philately & Stamps Printing
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: 2.15 £ – Jersey pound

Marie Bartlett (1677-1741) left a significant fortune to fund a hospital and poorhouse in Jersey. Despite legal delays and disputes over her will, the States of Jersey eventually established the General Hospital in St. Helier by 1793, fulfilling her vision. Her donation remains a cornerstone in the history of Jersey’s health services.

Pan-American Pharamceutical Regulation Harmonization Conf.

  • Country: Mexico
  • Issued on: 2024-08-23
  • Size: 24 x 40 mm
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Adim Mendoza
  • Printers: Talleres de Impresion de Estampillas y Valores [Mexico City, Mexico]
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Perforation: 13
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: 7 N$ – Mexican new peso
  • Print run: 100,000

Caucasian Mineral Water Spas

  • Country: Russia
  • Issued on: 2024-08-27
  • Size: 100 x 80 mm
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Alexander Moskovets
  • Format: Souvenir Sheet;
    • Lermontov Baths
    • The Narzannaya Gallery
    • Gallery above Spring No. 17
    • Ostrovsky Baths
  • Perforation: comb 11¾ x 12
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: 4*30 ₽ – Russian ruble
  • Print run: 20,000

The Caucasian Mineral Waters is a group of spa resorts, located in the Northern Caucasus region of Russia. The region features over 130 sanatoriums and hotels. In addition to approximately 300 mineral springs with diverse properties, the region is famous for its landscape, mild climate, and the medicinal mud of Lake Tambukan.

Red Cross Samaritans

  • Country: Faroe Islands
  • Issued on: 2024-08-30
  • Size: 40 x 30 mm
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Kári við Rættará
  • Printers: BPost Philately & Stamps Printing
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: 33 dkr. – Danish krone