title: [Medical activities and Chinese postal articles].
abstract: Based on the postal articles relevant to medicine printed and distributed in modern age before and after 1949, it can be seen that the developmental course of Chinese health care and benevolence from retardation to flourishing were all closely related to its historical background, political status and contemporary government policy. Though it only reflects a unilateral view in modern medical history, the postal articles connected with medical materials definitely are testimonies of the history of civilization, providing an approach to the study of medicine and is also helpful to the study of history of medicine.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010678:Philately / Q000266:history*