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Showing posts with label phthisiologist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phthisiologist. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 December 2018

Sunday Stamps R3 - USA

I've posted stamps of Pulitzer Prize winners before (Margaret Mitchell, Theodore Roethke) but when I saw this stamp I wondered what Joseph Pulitzer would make of the Press and social media today.
USA - 10 April 1947
I was forced to check out more about the man at Pulitzer biography. Well worth reading.

When it comes to words beginning with 'P', phthisiologist was new to me.
USA -12 May 2008
Phthisiology covers the care and treatment of tuberculosis in the lung and is a special area of pulmonology. The Greek for phthisis designated by Hippocrates means "consumption".

Edward Trudeau, the man on the stamps, established the first laboratory in the US for the study of TB.

A legend of a different kind is the man who starred as Atticus Finch.
USA - 28 April 2011
To Kill a Mockingbird won a Pulitzer Prize for Harper Lee in 1961.

For the 'P' related stamps please visit Sunday-stamps-r