salentin
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Post by salentin on Jun 10, 2019 21:25:13 GMT
Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857-1940) was a psychiatrist.A highly gifted pupil,he started his medical studies at 17, obtained his doctorate with 23 and habilitated at the age of 28.He did also work in other medical fields. So he received the Nobel-Prize for Medicine in 1927 for his treatment of late stages of syphilis, by infecting patients with Malaria.This method was abolished,when antibiotics were discovered. stamp issued March 7th,1957;
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 15, 2019 16:25:23 GMT
Afars and Issas issues for Louis Pasteur and Drs. Calmette and Guérin, inventors of BCG vaccine against tuberculosis:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 16, 2019 16:17:32 GMT
Djibouti issue for the 25th death anniversary of Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 18, 2019 20:13:30 GMT
Djibouti issue for Dr Hansen and his fight against leprosy:
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Jun 25, 2019 18:12:01 GMT
Anton von Eiselsberg 1860-1939,born in Steinhaus Castle,Austria,residence of his forefathers. He studied medicine at the universities of Vienna,Würzburg,Zürich and Paris. Among his teachers were Theodor Billroth and Robert Koch. A surgeon by profession,he was a pioneer of Neuro-Surgery. He also worked as a teacher and was a professor at the universities of Utrecht (Netherlands)
and Königsberg (Eastern Prussia,today Kaliningrad,Russia). But the centre of his working remained Vienna. He also was a pioneer of trauma-surgery.He died,on his way to a patient,in a train-crash in 1939.
Stamp issued June 20th,1960,commemorating von Eiselsberg´s 100th birth anniversary.
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Jun 29, 2019 2:50:47 GMT
Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis (Ignác Fülöp in hungarian) was born in todays Budapest as son of a german family. After his studies he became an assistance doctor at the Vienna General Hospital in 1846. He worked in the maternal clinic. At the time child bed fever was was rampant in all hospitals.In his clinic,what was at the time amongst the leading hospitals worldwide,the mortality-rate by child bed fever was at 13%. He realized,that it was caused by the lack of hygiene. In 1847/48 he published a study,what showed,that with washing and desinfecting the hands of doctors and nurses in his section, the mortality-rate was brough down to about 1%. However the established doctors did not show any interest in his ideas.He was set back and bullied, so that he left Vienna in 1850 utterly disappointed. He opened a medical practice in Pest (today Budapest) and later became a professor at the universty of Pest,what today is named after him. In his lifetime his teachings never were recognized by the medical world. In 1865 he felt in deep depressions and was put into a lunatic asylum,without prior examination by a doctor. There he soon died under dubious circunstances. In 1963,nearly one hundred years after his dead,his body was exhumed. The many bone-fractures,that were found,were likely inflicted on him by the wardens of the asylum. They were the cause of his sudden death. It needed more than two decades after his death,that hygiene became accepted (outgoing from Britain and not from Austria !) as a must in medicine. It is a pity,that the men whose works saved more human lives than any other medical achievement ever,had such a sad life and death.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 22, 2019 20:28:12 GMT
Recent issue from New Caledonia, celebrating Gaston Bourret, who helped established hospital services on the island:
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Post by renden on Dec 22, 2019 21:42:58 GMT
Recent issue from New Caledonia, celebrating Gaston Bourret, who helped established hospital services on the island: Xavier, love your Doctor's covers !!! René
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Post by philatelia on Dec 23, 2019 2:14:05 GMT
Ditto! These are the REAL heroes. Can you imagine what our lives would be like without the contributions these men and women made to science?
Spending money on pure science is never a waste - I’d happily pay extra taxes if I knew every penny would go to basic research - not just medicine - all fields.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 23, 2019 9:27:27 GMT
Spending money on pure science is never a waste - I’d happily pay extra taxes if I knew every penny would go to basic research - not just medicine - all fields. Well, as a scientist working on a project paid in part by your taxes, let me say: !
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 23, 2019 15:03:30 GMT
Afars and Issas issues for Louis Pasteur and Drs. Calmette and Guérin, inventors of BCG vaccine against tuberculosis: Thanks for your recent excellent posts in this thread, Xavier. I agree with Terri ( philatelia ), too, that these doctors are real heroes! So, I hope no one will mind if I re-post this pane of Cinderellas depicting Dr. Calmette, one of the co-inventors of the BCG vaccine against TB. I just really like these stamps, and always like to add a classic or two to the topical threads when I see a good opportunity! 1934 Fight Against Tuberculosis CinderellasI mentioned back in May 2019 in the Whatcha Been Stamping thread that I did a salvage operation on some France Cinderellas while I was texting back and forth with Michael ( Londonbus1 ). I documented the process with photos, but I will find a more appropriate thread or sub-board for posting those. Below is a scan of the result of the process. This is a half of a booklet pane (a full France Cinderella pane is shown in the previous post by jimwentzell ) rescued from one of the "Box o' Stamps" tins which I received for my birthday, and it turned out rather well, I think, considering its poor condition when I got it. The person pictured on the stamp is Dr. Albert Calmette, MD, the French physician who discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a bacterium which was used in the Calmette-Guérin vaccine against tuberculosis. The inscription on the stamp calls Calmette the "Sauveur des Tout-Petits" which means "Savior of Infants", as the vaccine was normally administered to babies and very young children. Calmette died on 29 October 1933, so this stamp was issued to honor him the year after his passing. From a philatelic point of view, I think that the three-color stamps are very nicely designed and executed. I also really like the selvedge advertising, in this case for two major makers of chocolate, Nestlé and Suchard, although I note in this example that the Nestlé products advertised are "Lait sucré" (sweetened milk) and "Farine lactée" (milk-enriched flour). It occurs to me as I write this that perhaps, at the time, Nestlé milk products were used in the making of Suchard chocolate, and perhaps that is why the two companies both appear in advertising on the same pane.
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Post by philatelia on Dec 23, 2019 15:21:27 GMT
Love the chocolate or “medicine” adverts on the selvage. Ahhh “medicine” makers honoring medicine men. Very fitting! LoL!
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Post by renden on Dec 23, 2019 18:04:05 GMT
Afars and Issas issues for Louis Pasteur and Drs. Calmette and Guérin, inventors of BCG vaccine against tuberculosis: Thanks for your recent excellent posts in this thread, Xavier. 1934 Fight Against Tuberculosis CinderellasThe person pictured on the stamp is Dr. Albert Calmette, MD, the French physician who discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a bacterium which was used in the Calmette-Guérin vaccine against tuberculosis. Thanks Chris Beryllium Guy for posting this wonderful story and I did not repeat much. So I might add (and pardon (french) me if I repeat) Tuberculosis (TB) vaccines are vaccinations intended for the prevention of tuberculosis. Immunotherapy as a defence against TB was first proposed in 1890 by Robert Koch. Today, the only effective tuberculosis vaccine in common use is bacilli Calmette-Guérin (BCG), first used on humans in 1921. When I was doing my internship at Laval University's Center of Pulmonology (Laval Hospital) in the 70's, I was amazed by the fact that there still existed a special floor for TB (tuberculosis) patients in a Country (CANADA) where TB has been eradicated. I did receive myself the vaccine when younger but now in USA+Canada, this is not routinely given anymore, except for persons at high risk. René
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Post by anglobob on Dec 23, 2019 19:14:01 GMT
1934 Fight against Tuberculosis Cinderellas. More cinderella items depicting Dr Albert Calmette.These are possibly windshield or window stickers,measuring 105 by 152mm.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 16, 2020 21:28:55 GMT
Egyptian special FDC issued for the 21st International Congress of Pediatrics in 1995, which my mother attended. These covers were distributed to the attendees.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 11, 2020 22:46:02 GMT
A nice Australian series showing off recent medical advances:
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Post by salentin on May 21, 2020 16:24:23 GMT
Karl Landsteiner,born in Vienna 1868,died in New York 1943. After having finished his studies,Landsteiner worked for five years in laboratories in Zürich,Würzburg and Munic, before returning to Vienna in 1896.Here he worked at different hospitals and laboratories in the fields of pathology and immunolgy,always more a researcher and teacher,than a practical doctor. In 1900 he found and described the AB0 blood group system.For this discovery he received the 1930 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Because of the bad material conditions in Vienna,due to the lost WW I,Landsteiner left Austria in 1919 and finally settled in the US. He and his family became US-citizens in 1930.However he always felt to be a European,although he spoke German only, when he got angry with students or assistents. He was a "working machine" all his life and died two days after being struck down by a heart attack,while at work in his laboratory at the Rockefeller Institute,aged 75,in 1943.
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Post by cursus on May 24, 2020 3:42:38 GMT
Josep Trueta i Raspall (Barcelona, 1897–1977) was a Catalan medical doctor. Specialized on work injures orthopaedia; during the 1936/39 war, he was chief of trauma services for the city of Barcelona working at the Hospital de Sant Pau (renamed Hospital General de Catalunya), treating war injured as well as the many civil victims of the fascist bombing of Catalan towns. As a Catalan patriot, after the democratic side defeat in early 1939, he left the country as he "didn't want to see freedom die on his country". Exiled in Southern France, he was approached by the British Gov. because of his English-language work, "Treatment of War Wounds and Fractures, with special reference to the Closed Method as used in the war in Spain", was published in London. After some lectures in the UK, he was offered a post and the family went to live in Oxford.
Dr. Trueta's work was noted and accepted by the British RAMC, so influencing British Army medical practice. During World War II, he helped to organize medical emergency services. His use of a new plaster cast method for the treatment of open wounds and fractures helped save a great number of lives during several wars. He joined the team run by Florey and Chain that developed penicillin in Oxford, and held the first live animal to be injected with the groundbreaking antibiotic.
From 1949 to 1966 he was the third Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Oxford and directed the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (previously the Wingfield-Morris Hospital).
On his retirement in 1966, the family returned to Catalonia, where Josep Trueta died in 1977.
Trueta formed part of a group of Catalans exiled in the United Kingdom who denounced the situation of Catalonia in Francoist Spain. He wrote The Spirit of Catalonia, a book aimed at explaining Catalan history to English-speaking society. The main hospital of Girona (Catalonia) was named in his honour, as are streets in many towns across Catalonia. Every year the government of Catalonia awards Trueta medals and plaques to professionals and institutions that excel in the Catalan medical field.
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Post by salentin on May 28, 2020 13:00:48 GMT
Otto Loewi 1873-1961 was born in Frankfurt/Main.He studied in Munic and Straßburg, where he obtained his doctorate in clinical pharmacology in 1896. He was more interested in philosophy than medicine,but nevertheless finished his studies. Around 1900 he moved to Vienna,where he worked in the field of pharmacology research. He soon obtained the citizenship of Austria but also kept his german citizenship. In 1909 he got a professorship for pharmacology at the university of Graz. In 1921 he discovered the chemical nature of nerve-impulse transmission,the Neuro-Transmitters. For this discovery he received the medicine-Nobel Prize,together with Henry H.Dale,in 1936. Because he was jewish he was forced to leave Austria after the "Anschluß",when Austria was incorporated into Nazi-Germany,in 1938. In 1940 he went to the USA,became a citizen in 1946 and died in New York in 1961.
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Post by norsten on May 28, 2020 15:45:38 GMT
A Norwegian stamp again depicting Dr Armauer Hansen who in 1873 discovered the bacteria that causes leprosy.
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Post by salentin on Jul 8, 2020 5:21:43 GMT
Fritz Pregel 1869-1930 Born in Laibach (Ljubljana/Slowenia) to a slowenian father and a german mother,Pregel studied medicine in Graz. In 1913 he became a professor for medical chemistry at the university of Graz. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his invention of "Micro-Analysis of Organic Substances". Stamp issued Dec.12th,1973,commemorating the 50th anniversary of Pregel winning the Nobel prize.
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Post by oldpapercollect on Jul 8, 2020 10:23:59 GMT
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Post by hrdoktorx on Aug 1, 2020 11:00:31 GMT
Recent French issue celebrating the 800 th anniversary of the founding of the medical school at the University of Montpellier, now the oldest continually-operating medical school in the world. The stamp also features two famous alumni, François de Lapeyronie (1678-1747), personal physician to Louis XV, and Paul-Joseph Barthez (1734-1806).
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 12, 2020 19:26:14 GMT
Another new arrival, this Thailand issue for the 2002 World Congress of Gastroenterology:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 13, 2020 17:41:40 GMT
Series issued by Zaïre in 1983 for the centenary of Koch's discovery of the bacillus causing tuberculosis:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 21, 2020 21:41:08 GMT
Monaco issue celebrating the invention of the hypodermic needle by Alexander Wood in 1855:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 25, 2020 21:21:00 GMT
The next philatelic heritage block features the 1943 design remembering Ambroise Paré, one of the founders of modern medicine:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 8, 2020 20:28:40 GMT
Also received this week, this new booklet of self-adhesive stamps from Canada celebrating medical breakthrough doctors:
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Post by chrischross on Oct 22, 2020 21:18:37 GMT
1975 Maximum card / first day of issue commemorating Dr. Albert Schweitzer's birth centenary with a view of his hospital at Lambarene, Gabon:
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Post by renden on Oct 22, 2020 21:59:03 GMT
Also received this week, this new booklet of self-adhesive stamps from Canada celebrating medical breakthrough doctors: Should be buying those (but they do not have one with my face LOL !!) René
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