Postage stamps ephemera. Box 11A.

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Box file containing postage stamps, first day covers and postmarks on medical subjects in acid free sleeves. Stamps are dated with Stanley Gibbons number (where possible). Countries are: Turkey, Turks & Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Nations (New York, Geneva and Vienna). Stamps include: water purification, Red Crescent, population control, blood donation, eye donation, first aid, blood transfusion, Avicenna, Red Cross emergency medical services, nurses, public health, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, smallpox vaccination in Turkey, Hafsa Sultan, Gülhane Medical Military Academy (Ankara), ambulances, medicinal plants (garlic, leeks, onions), high blood pressure (hypertension prevention), nutrition, health education, deaf children, child survival (1985), braille, breast feeding, growth monitoring, immunisation, oral rehydration therapy, World Blind Week (1977), drug addiction, Sirikit Medical Center, 1st Pacific congress of allergology and immunology, malnutrition, family planning, demography, disability, tuberculosis (Uganda Stop TB Partnership, 2005), Commonwealth pharmaceutical conference (1982), autism, Hamdan Bib Rashid Al Maktoum, polio vaccination, sanitation, Red Crescent Society , pharmacy (Uruguay), 2002 World congress on gastroenterology, Marcello Malpighi, diabetes, immunisation, Emil von Behring, Kitasato, Camille Guerin, Albert Calmette, Jonas Salk, diphtheria, poliomyelitis, measles, rubella, septicaemia, Thomas Weller, Ignaz Semmelweis, Sir James Simpson (chloroform for obstetrics), René Laënnec (stethoscope), stopping smoking, lung cancer, Lions Club providing glasses, disabled sports.

Physical description

1 box ; 34 x 33 cm.

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