Medical Stamps

The British Royal Mail has presented series of post stamps devoted to the most significant medical achievements of the country.

Creating of penicillin by Alexander Fleming, 1928.

Developing of a computer tomography by Godfrey Hounsfield, 1971.

Role of mosquitoes in the malaria carrying over, confirmed by Ronald Ross, 1897.

The first full prosthetics of a coxofemoral joint by John Charnley, 1962.

The first installation of an artificial crystalline lens by Harold Ridley in 1949.

Synthesis beta blockers by James Black, 1962.