Here we try to list as comprehensively as possible the stamps and postmarks issued in November 2024 that relate to medicine and pharmacy. This is also to provide material for corresponding thematic philately. Most of the information comes from colnect.com

 



Valiantsin Volkaw: The Portrait of Juryj Los, a Surgeon. 1963

  • Country: Belarus
  • Issued on: 2024-11-01
  • Size: 37 x 52 mm
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Yauheniya Biadonik
  • Printers: Bobruisk Integrated Printing House
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Perforation: comb 13½ x 13
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: H º – No Face Value; Initial value on day of issue: 2.58 Br.
  • Print run: 18,000

This stamp appeared in the series “Masterpieces of Painting from the Museums of Belarus” – I haven’t found anything about the doctor.

Historical Medical Texts

  • Country: Liechtenstein
  • Issued on: 2024-11-04
  • Size: 32.5 x 40 mm
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Ewald Frick
  • Printers: Gutenberg AG (FL)
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value:
    • CHF 1.00 Herbarium Apulei Platonici – illustration of mandrake
    • CHF 1.20 Macer Floridus De viribus herbarium: illustration of woodcut of mugwort
    • CHF 1.90 Herbarius latinus: illustration of white sea onion
    • CHF 2.50 Garden of Health: illustration of feltwort or devil’s twine

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Blood Donation / Organ Donation

  • Country: Norway
  • Issued on: 2024-11-07
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Sandra Blikås
  • Printers: Joh. Enschedé
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Perforation: Die Cut
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Gum: Self-Adhesive
  • Face value: Innland 50g º – No Face Value; NOK 29 on day of issue
  • Print run: 160,000
  • Description: Issued in coils of 100 with the other stamp in this series, designs alternating through the coil

Camillo Golgi, Biologist

  • Country: Italy
  • Issued on: 2024-11-08
  • Size: 40 x 30 mm
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Maria Carmela Perrini
  • Printers: Ist. Pol. Stato (IPS – Roma)
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Perforation: Serpentine Die Cut 11
  • Printing: Photogravure
  • Gum: Self-Adhesive
  • Face value: B º – No Face Value; € 1.25 on day of issue
  • Print run: 250,020

Camillo Golgi (1843-1926) was an Italian physician and histologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906 for his work on the anatomy of the nervous system. He developed the Golgi stain, a method for staining nerves and cell structures, which led to the discovery of the Golgi apparatus. Golgi studied medicine in Pavia, worked in hospitals and began his pioneering research in a converted kitchen.

Australian Medical Mission, 110 Years

  • Country: Serbia
  • Issued on: 2024-11-08
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Miroslav Nikolić
  • Printers: Forum
  • Format: Mini Sheet
  • Perforation: 13¾
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: 6*60 din – Serbian dinar
  • Print run: 25,000

During WWI, volunteers from Australia served in Serbia. Among them:

  • James Blair Donaldson (1888–1971): Australian doctor, served in Serbian and French hospitals.
  • Ethel May Gillingham (1884–1952): British Red Cross nurse in Serbia, later served in Egypt.
  • Thomas Benbow (1886–1971): American doctor, treated typhus patients in Skopje.
  • Stella Miles Franklin (1879–1954): Australian writer, worked with Scottish Women’s Hospitals and chronicled her experiences.
  • Olive May Kelso King (1885–1958): Ambulance driver for Serbian army.
  • Mary Clementina De Garis (1881–1963): Chief Medical Officer for Scottish Women’s

Campaign Sickle-Cell Anemia

  • Country: India
  • Issued on: 2024-11-15
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: 5 ₹ – Indian rupee

The National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission, launched on July 1, 2023, aims to eradicate Sickle Cell Disease in India by 2047. It focuses on screening tribal populations, raising awareness, and providing better diagnosis and treatment to reduce the disease’s impact.

Human Senses : Sight

  • Country: Slovenia
  • Issued on: 2024-11-21
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Luka Seme
  • Printers: Agencija Za Komercijalnu Djelatnost
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Perforation: 14
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: 2.98 € – Euro
  • Description: stamp from souvenir sheet

Hospitals of Italy

  • Country: Italy
  • Issued on: 2024-11-24
  • Size: 48 x 40 mm
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Matias Hermo
  • Printers: Ist. Pol. Stato (IPS – Roma)
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Perforation: Serpentine Die Cut 11
  • Printing: Photogravure
  • Gum: Self-Adhesive
  • Face value: B º – No Face Value; € 1.25 on day of issue
    • Maria Nuova Hospital, Florence
    • Civil Hospital Saints Giovanni and Paolo, Venice
    • Ca’ Granda Hospital Maggiore Polyclinic, Milan
    • Santo Spirito in Sassia Hospital, Rome
    • Hospital of S. Maria del Popolo of the Incurables, Naples
  • Print run: 200,004

Fyodor Uglov, Surgeon

  • Country: Russia
  • Issued on: 2024-11-29
  • Size: 37 x 37 mm
  • Colors: Multicolor
  • Designers: Khaniya Betredinova
  • Format: Commemorative
  • Perforation: 11¼
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Face value: 72 ₽ – Russian ruble
  • Print run: 63,000

Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov (1904–2008) was a Soviet surgeon and Guinness World Records’ oldest practicing surgeon, retiring at 102. He pioneered complex surgeries and operated during Leningrad’s WWII siege. A renowned teacher and anti-alcohol advocate, his legacy is overshadowed by later controversial conspiracy theories.