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Following is a list of all stamps in the database, organized by country. The year and Scott catalog number for each stamp is followed by a brief description of the stamp design and sometimes by some other details, such as the occasion for which the stamp was issued.

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Year   Scott #   Stamp design


Algeria

1954   251   Francois Maillot
1954   252   Alphonse Laveran


Antigua

1985   860   Maimonides


Argentina

1966   804   Agote, Luis


Austria

1937   B156   Gerhard van Swieten
1937   B157   Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg
1937   B158   Karl Freiherr von Rokitansky
1937   B159   Joseph Skoda
1937   B160   Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra
1937   B161   Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt
1937   B162   Joseph Hyrtl
1937   B163   Theodor Billroth
1937   B164   Theodor Meynert
1957   615   Wagner-Jauregg
1965   746   Ignaz Semmelweis
1968   813   Karl Landsteiner Birth centennial
1992   1575   Theodor Billroth International congress Austrian society of surgeons


Belgium

1942   B323   Rembert Dodoens
1993   1507   Vesalius, Andreas 450 years publication of De Humani Corporis Fabrica


Botswana

1973   100   Dr. David Livingstone
1973   101   Livingstone meets Stanley


Brazil

1954   810   Hahnemann First world congress of homeopathy
1955   830   Adolfo Lutz Birth Centennial
1959   903   Dr. Piraja da Silva 25th anniversary of the discovery of Schistosoma Mansoni
1983   1849a   Antonio Prudente, Camargo cancer hospital
1995   2553   Roentgen Centennial of discovery of X-rays


Burkina Faso

1977   444   Robert Koch
1977   445   Albert Schweizer


Canada

1991   1302   Jennie K Trout
1991   1303   Wilder Penfield
1991   1304   Frederick G Banting
1991   1305   Harold R. Griffith


Cape Verde

1995   678   X-ray tube
1995   679   X-ray tube


Central Africa

1977   293   Pierre and Marie Curie
1977   294   Roentgen


Central African Republic

1982   560   Robert Koch
1982   561   Robert Koch
1982   562   Robert Koch
1985   724   Louis Pasteur


Chad

1997      Ivan Pavlov


Congo

1978   450   Alexander Fleming


Cuba

1982   2525   Robert Koch
1993   3484   Pierre-Paul Emile Roux
1993   3485   Carlos J.Finlay
1993   3486   Ivan P. Pavlov
1993   3487   Louis Pasteur
1993   3488   Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
1993   3489   Sigmund Freud
1993   3490   WilhelmConrad Roentgen
1993   3491   Joseph Lister
1993   3492   Robert Koch


Czech Republic

1995   2972   Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen


Denmark

1960   377   Niels R. Finsen


Djibouti

1982   544   Robert Koch TB bacillus discovery centenary
1984   588   Pierre Curie


Dominica

1997   2000   Louis Pasteur
1997   2001   Christiaan Barnard
1997   2002   Alexander Fleming
1997   2003   Camillo Golgi
1997   2004   Jonas Salk
1997   2005   Har Gobind Khorana
1997   2007   Frank Macfarlane Burnet


Ecuador

1899   140   Jose Mejia y Lequerica First stamp depicting individually portrayed physicians (with 141)
1899   141   Espejo, Francisco Santo Cruz y First stamp depicting individually portrayed physicians (with 140)


Estonia

1995   294   Louis Pasteur


France

1938   B76   Curie, Pierre & Marie
1939   B89   Claude Bernard surtax to aid unemployed intellectuals
1946   B201   Alfred Fournier surtax for fund against VD
1948   B232   Albert Calmette 1st international congress on BCG
1958   865   Philippe Pinel
1958   866   Fernand Widal
1958   867   Charles Henri Nicolle
1958   868   Rene Leriche
1959   B337   Charles Michel de l'Epee
1959   B338   Valentin Hauy
1960   B344   Jean Martin Charcot
1961   1003   Pierre Fauchard Bicentennary of death
1962   1022   Pierre-Fidele Bretonneau Centenary of death
1964   B385   Jean Nicolas Corvisart
1964   B386   Dominique Larrey
1966   B398   Elie Metchnikoff
1972   B461   Nicolas Desgenettes
1972   B462   Francois Broussais
1987   B584   Charles Richet
1987   B585   Eugene Jamot
1987   B586   Bernard Halpern
1987   B587   Alexandre Yersin
1987   B588   Jean Rostand


Gabon

1960   C1   Schweitzer, Albert


Gambia

1989   908   Nicolle, Charles


Germany

1940   B186   Dr. Emil von Behring
1940   B187   Dr. Emil von Behring
1943   B251   Koch, Robert
1951   686   Roentgen
1954   722   Paul Ehrlich & Emil von Behring
1958   792   Cusanus, Nikolaus Cardinal
1960   9N173   Koch, Robert
1975   1160   Albert Schweitzer
1977   1264   Dr. Johann Andreas Eisenbarth
1978   1274   Dr. Janusz Korczak
1982   1370   Robert Koch
1987   1481   Dorothea Erxleben
1989   1487   Cecile Vogt
1993   1817   Paracelsus
1994   1884   Roentgen
1996   1918   Franz von Siebold
1996   1946   Samuel Hahnemann


Germany, DDR

1968   1025   Landsteiner, Karl
1968   1026   Lasker, Emanuel
1968   1028   Ignaz Semmelweis
1968   1029   Pettenkofer, Max von


Ghana

1995   1827   Ehrlich, P


Greece

1973   1097   Papanicolaou, Teofilos
1973   1098   Papanicolaou, Teofilos
1977   1199   Aesculapios with patients
1977   1201   Aesculapius curing patient
1996   1841   Hippocrates
1996   1842   Galen


Guinea

1970   557   Edward Jenner, MD


Guyana

1995   3010f   Erwin Neher
1995   3010d   Robert Koch
1995   3010a   Francis Crick
1995   3010e   Edgar Adrian


Hungary

1976   2438   Madzsar, Jozsef
1976   2439   Bogar, Ignac
1976   2440   Golub, Rudolf
1976   2442   Koranyi, Frigyes
1981   2699   Fleming, Alexander
1983   2794   Vagi Istvan
1987   3060   Hippocrates
1987   3061   Avicenna
1987   3063   Harvey, William
1987   3064   Ignaz Semmelweis
1989   3213   Galen
1989   3214   Paracelsus
1989   3215   Vesalius
1989   3216   Virchow, Rudolph
1989   3217   Pavlov, Ivan


India

1995   1532   Pasteur, Louis
1995   1538   Roentgen centennial discovery of X-rays


Italy

1978   1331   Malpighi, Marcello
1994   1976   Golgi, Camillo
1994   1977   Natta, Giulio


Ivory Coast

1978   461   Bordet, Jules


Malaysia

1995   546   Early X-ray machine
1995   547   CT scan
1995   548   Chest X-ray


Maldives

1982   970   Koch and microscope
1982   971   Microscope and TB organisms
1982   972   Robert Koch
1982   973   Robert Koch and book plates


Mauritania

1977   360   Emil A. von Behring


Mexico

1972   C395   Willem Einthoven and Frank Wilson, with EKG World Health Day, 1972
1993   1821   Dr. Ignacio Chavez Sanchez
1995   1912   Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen 100 years of the discovery of radiology
1995   1927   Louis Pasteur centennial of Pasteur's death
1997   2031   Dr. Ignacio Chavez centennial of Chavez' birth


Monaco

1995   1981   Wilhelm Roentgen discovery of X-Rays centennial
1998      Pierre and Marie Curie centenary of the discovery of radium


Netherlands

1935   B79   Frans Cornelius Donders
1941   B134   Dr. Antonius Mathijsen
1941   B135   Dr. Jan Ingenhousz


Niger

1977   408   Allan Hodgkin
1977   410   Paul Ehrlich


Paraguay

1968   1129   Christiaan Barnard


Romania

1954   999   Babes, Victor
1956   1126   Pierre Curie
1957   1149   Dr. George Marinescu and Marinescu Institute
1957   1150   Dr. I Cantacuzino and Cantacuzino Hospital
1957   1152   Dr. C. Davila and Dr. N. Kretzulescu
1984   3236   Dr. Petru Groza
1984   3237   Alexandru Odubescu
1984   3238   Dr. Carol Davila
1984   3239   Dr. Nicolae G. Lupu
1984   3240   Dr. Daniel Danielopolu


Russia

1952   1655   Vladimir Bekhterev
1963   2803   Ilya Metchnikoff
1963   2804   Louis Pasteur
1963   2805   Albert Calmette


South Africa

1969   355   Christiaan Barnard, with Groote Schuur Hospital


Spain

1948   RA25   Asklepios (5c) surtax to fight tuberculosis
1948   RA26   Asklepios (10c) surtax to fight tuberculosis
1967   1460   Roentgen and X-Ray tube. 7th Latin and first European congress of Radiology. Barcelona 1967
1998   2942   Dr. Jiminez Diaz centenary of the college of physicians of Madrid


Sweden

1963   629   G F Du Rietz (25; perf vert)
1963   630   G F Du Rietz (35; perf vert)
1963   631   G F Du Rietz (2K; perf vert)
1963   632   G F Du Rietz (25; perf 3 sides)
1963   633   G F Du Rietz (35; perf 3 sides)
1983   1478   Arne Tiselius
1983   1479   George de Hevesy
1983   1482   Hans von Euler-Chelpin
1984   1521   Georg von Bekesy.
1984   1522   John Eccles, Alan Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley
1984   1523   Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
1984   1524   Roger Sperry
1984   1525   David Hubel, Torsten Wiesel


Transkei

1982   97   Hippocrates
1982   99   William Harvey
1982   100   Joseph Lister
1983   101   Edward Jenner
1983   103   Louis Pasteur
1992   267   Thomas Weller
1992   268   Ignaz Semmelweis
1992   269   James Simpson
1992   270   Rene Laennec
1993   291   Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey
1993   292   Aleis Carrel
1993   293   James Lind
1993   294   Santiago Ramon Y Cajal


Uruguay

1969   C355   Luis Morquio birth centennial


Venezuela

1963   843   Luis Razetti (35c blue)
1963   844   Luis Razetti (45c red)
1964   854   Carlos Arvelo 100th anniversary of his death
1996   1544a-j   Jose Gregorio Hernandez (sheet of 10 stamps)
1996   1545   Jose Gregorio Hernandez (souvenir sheet)


Vietnam

1983   1269   Robert Koch centenary discovery of tubercle bacillus


Yemen

1998   850   Christian Barnard
1998   851   Christian Barnard
1998   852   Christian Barnard
1998   853   Christian Barnard


Zimbabwe

1982   456   Robert Koch