100 Great Doctors and Champions of Medicine

The history of medicine knows many great names. Some doctors and researchers made such important discoveries in medicine that their names entered history alongside Hippocrates. They saved lives and showed the world that medicine is not just a science, but also an art.

The book presents the biographies of outstanding doctors and champions of medicine from the past and present, who excelled in various fields of medical science: in surgery, the study of the human body and the effects of the environment on it, the development of disease symptomatology, diagnostic and preventive problems, the creation of complex treatment methods and medical devices now known to everyone, etc. The reader will get acquainted with the truly heroic, dedicated lives of 100 great figures in world medicine. Among them are Asclepius and Avicenna, Paracelsus and Harvey, Larrey and Pirogov, Pasteur and Sechenov, Mechnikov and Pavlov, Bekhterev and Ilizarov...