About the book: 2020 / Essentially, the history of medicine is history humanity itself with all its ups and downs, its daring but vain desire to comprehend the truth and the ultimate goal of existence. The history of medicine can be represented as an endless string of books, characters, successive theories and human misconceptions, or quite differently, as the true quintessence of cultural development. Here is one of the most beautiful books about how our ideas about health developed: from Hippocrates to the first heart surgeries.