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Link for "Historical Hobbies for the Pharmacist".

Chapter 5 is "Pharmaceutical Philately":

https://aihp.org/wp-content/uploads...lHobbies.pdf

NY, TX, and WI also had Pharmaceutical Liquor tax stamps:

Thanks for the great link StateRevs!

This Canada 1971 stamp shows instruments in the laboratory of Dr. Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best, two Canadian medical scientists who discovered insulin in 1921.

Here is a circa 1890- 1900 patent medicine cinderella promoting "The genuine Loeflund's Malt Extract". Inscription on label says, "According to Liebig, it has been proven as a first-class nutritional and cough suppressant for 50 years."

The label uses the "endorsement" of biological scientist Justus von Liebig (1803-73), one of the principal founders of organic chemistry. In the area of nutrition, Liebig worked mainly with meat extracts, but he also studied other areas. From wikipedia, "He promoted the use of baking powder to make lighter bread, studied the chemistry of coffee-making, and developed a breast milk substitute for babies who could not suckle. He is considered to have made possible the invention of Marmite, because of his discovery that yeast could be concentrated."

Second pic shows the May 12, 1953 West German stamp (Mi #166) commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jesus von Liebig.

This Hungary 1981 stamp commemorates Scottish physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) who discovered penicillin in 1928.

awesome link SR, I d/l'ed that pdf... great stuff

thank you Book and Kuol, even in my 70's I still enjoy learning, these are awesome!!!!

1985 stamp series, "Medicinal plants of Siberia"
Delphínium dictyocárpum

Thermopsis lanceolata R. Br.

Rosa acicularis

Rhapónticum carthamoídes

Bergénia crassifólia

This Cuba 2012 stamp introduces Heberprot-P, a medicine which treats Diabetic Foot Ulcer.

On March 8, 2006 the USA issued these two definitive stamps depicting the medical researchers responsible for developing vaccines to prevent paralytic poliomyelitis. The 63c value (Sc #3428) shows Dr. Jonas Salk (1914-1995), and the 87c stamp (Sc #3435) shows Dr. Albert Sabin (1906-1993).

From sciencehistory.org, "In the 1950's Salk and Sabin developed separate vaccines - one (Salk) from a killed virus and the other (Sabin) from a live virus - to combat the dreaded disease polio. Jonas Salk became a national hero when he allayed the fear of polio with his vaccine approved in 1955. Although it was the first polio vaccine, it was not the last; Albert Sabin introduced the oral vaccine in the 1960's that replaced Salk's."

Later research showed that there is a very slight chance of transmission of polio with the live virus method; so, since the 1990's, Salk's vaccine is in use in the USA.

Switzerland
175 years of Swiss Pharmacists Association
May 17, 2018
The design shows pharmacist at service.

This North Macedonia 2018 stamp marks the 75th anniversary of synthesis of Streptomycin, an antibiotic medication used to treat a number of bacterial infections including tuberculosis, plague, and rat bite fever.

This San Marino 1975 stamp marks the International Pharmaceutical Congress Eurocophar.

Brazil

1985

100 years of birth of Candido Fontoura - 1v

Candido Fontoura Silveira (1885-1974) was a brazilian farmaceutic and business man. He created the Farmaceutic Industries Fontoura-Wyeth, that produced penicilin, insecticids and another farmaco-chemicals products. The most famous product of his own was the 'Biotonic Fontoura', from 1910, that is comercializated till today. An entire generation in Brazil drunked this biotonic...




In a 1931 advertisement: Brazil wants strong people.
The weak at left, is imprestable...