title: A brief Iranian medical history through commemorative postage stamps.
abstract: Medical philately provides a useful medium for the study of medical history. There are a handful of Iranian stamps which have been issued with a medical theme. This report briefly reviews the history of Iranian medicine through Iranian commemorative postage stamps. Some notable stamps are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedics, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran. afshar@umsu.ac.ir
authors.forename: Ahmadreza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Afshar
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D007492:Iran; D010678:Philately / Q000266:history*