In essence, the history of medicine is the history of humanity itself with all its ups and downs, its daring but futile desire to comprehend the truth and the ultimate goal of being. The history of medicine can be presented in the form of an endless string of books, characters, successive theories and human delusions, or quite differently, as a true quintessence of the development of culture. Here is one of the most beautiful books about how our ideas about health developed: from Hippocrates to the first heart operations.