{"id":"5sykagz","internal_id":"167d8e00-66f5-4852-b5e0-f244bafaee2d","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/5nw411k/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/5sykagz"},"title":"Czechoslovakian postage stamp commemorating the International Congress on the History of Pharmacy","additional_title":[],"format":["image"],"genre":["Postage stamps"],"medium":[],"extent":["4.4 cm W x 2.7 cm H"],"language":["Czech"],"provenance":"","subject":["Postage stamps","Botanical illustration","Medicinal plants","Medicine on postage stamps"],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":[],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/","rights_holder":"Jaroslav Lukavský","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Auerbach, Jahna","description":"1971 postage stamp from Czechoslovakia featuring the Adonis vernalis plant and a pair of scales, issued to commemorate the International Congress on the History of Pharmacy. Adonis vernalis is poisonous and contains cardio-stimulant compounds. It has been used historically in European and Chinese folk medicine to treat various cardiac ailments.","description_html":"<p>1971 postage stamp from Czechoslovakia featuring the Adonis vernalis plant and a pair of scales, issued to commemorate the International Congress on the History of Pharmacy. Adonis vernalis is poisonous and contains cardio-stimulant compounds. It has been used historically in European and Chinese folk medicine to treat various cardiac ailments.</p>","published_at":"2026-04-08T15:37:35Z","updated_at":"2026-04-08T15:37:35Z","creator":[{"category":"artist","value":"Lukavský, Jaroslav, 1924-1984"}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1971","start_qualifier":"","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"1971"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"Czechoslovakia"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":{"box":"5","folder":"","volume":"","part":"","page":"","shelfmark":"","reel":"","formatted":"Box 5"}}