About the book: 2020 / The history of medicine is the most important part of human history, no less interesting than the history of conquests, coups and revolutions. Knowledge regarding the treatment of diseases appeared in primitive times, and since then, over many centuries and within the framework of the development of different cultures, medicine has changed incredibly. How did they cope with diseases in Ancient Egypt, and how was the medicine of Ancient India strikingly different? Why were Chinese healers, from the point of view of modern knowledge about the human body, more correct than doctors during the Middle Ages in Europe? How entire cities and nations coped with epidemics, and how society greeted the first news about the creation of vaccines?