In this section, we aim to provide a comprehensive list of stamps and postmarks related to medicine and pharmacy issued in May 2025. Unfortunately, only a few could be found this month like in April. The goal is to offer collectors of medical philately a useful overview. Most information was sourced from colnect.com.
Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital, El Palmar, Murcia, 50 Years
- Country: Spain
- Issued on: 2025-05-12
- Size: 41 x 29 mm
- Colors: Multicolor
- Printers: Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre-Real Casa de la Moneda (RCM-FNMT)
- Format: Commemorative Stamp
- Perforation: 13¾ x 13¼
- Printing: Offset lithography
- Face value: 2.40 € – Euro
- Print run: 70,000
Daniel Danielopolu, First General Director of the Academy of Medical Science
- Country: Romania
- Issued on: 2025-05-16
- Size: 48 x 33 mm
- Colors: Multicolor
- Designers: Mihail Vămășescu
- Format: Commemorative Stamp
- Printing: Offset lithography
- Face value: 14 L – Romanian leu
- Print run: 8,889
- Description: Issued in both full panes of 32 and mini-sheets of 3
Daniel Danielopolu (1884–1955) was a Romanian physiologist, clinician, and pharmacologist. He earned his doctorate in 1910 from the University of Bucharest and ran a hospital for typhus patients during World War I. From 1918 onward, he served as a professor at the Faculty of Medicine. Danielopolu was a pioneer in biocybernetics and an internationally recognized authority on the autonomic nervous system. He introduced diagnostic methods such as the atropine and orthostatic tests and developed treatments like the use of fractionated strophanthin in heart failure. In 1935, he proposed the foundation of an Academy of Scientific Medicine and became its permanent secretary. Between 1944 and 1945, he served as Romania’s Minister of Health. He died in Bucharest in 1955.
Constantin Angelescu, First President of the Romanian Academy of Sciences
- Country: Romania
- Issued on: 2025-05-16
- Size: 27 x 42 mm
- Colors: Multicolor
- Designers: Mihail Vămășescu
- Format: Commemorative Stamp
- Printing: Offset lithography
- Face value: 30 L – Romanian leu
- Print run: 3,100
- Description: stamp from souvenir sheet
Constantin I. Angelescu (1869–1948) was a prominent Romanian physician, surgeon, and education reformer. After studying medicine in Paris, he specialized in surgery and later headed the university clinic in Bucharest. Angelescu is regarded as one of the key modernizers of Romania’s education system during the interwar period. He implemented fundamental reforms aimed at unifying and improving primary and secondary education. He was also an honorary member of the Romanian Academy and a founding member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. In addition to his medical and educational work, he was active in cultural circles, serving as president of the Romanian Athenaeum. He passed away in Bucharest in 1948.
