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Atropa belladonna is deadly nightshade, a very poisonous plant named by Linnaeus after one of the Fates, Atropus, who cut the thread of life. Atropine is obtained from its leaf [...]

Cinchona officinalis (family Rubiaceae) is a tree from the Andes whose bark contains the alkaloids quinine and quinidine. 'Jesuit's bark', as it was called, was discovered in Europe after 1630 [...]

Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy, has been used medicinally for over 5000 years. When the unripe seed capsule is incised a milky fluid runs out and when dried this constitutes [...]

On 25 February 1996 India released this stamp to commemorate 100 years of cardiac surgery. The brochure issued by the Department of Posts contains the following comments: 'Stephen Paget, a [...]

Werner Forssmann (1904-1979) was thc pioneer of cardiac catheterisation in man. In 1929, at the age of 25, while doing his surgical training at Eberswalde, a small town near Berlin, [...]

The campaign against heart disease was the theme of National Health Day for Italy in 1993. The stamp issued featured myocardinal infarction and shos a wedge stopping a heart shaped [...]

Free radical damage and the role of cytokines in the pathophysiology of various cardiac diseases is the subject of considerable current cardiovascular and medical research, The only stamp which has [...]

Although no stamp has appeared which features the BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION, the cover illustrated bears the slogan postmark for the Sixth World Congress of Cardiology held in London in September [...]

Healthy eating, physical exercise, and routine medical examinations have all been promoted on stamps. The 1994 stamp from Israel promoting healthy eating was part of a set of three stamps [...]