There were discoveries in the history of medicine, without which it would never have become modern science, sometimes capable of working real miracles and curing even the most serious diseases. It is about such discoveries that the famous American doctors cardiologist Meyer Friedman and radiologist Gerald Friedland talk about. Telling about outstanding scientists, about their lives and about their time, about their predecessors and followers. the authors create vivid images of the great anatomist Vesalius, the discoverer of the world of bacteria Levenguk, fighters against infectious diseases Pasteur and Koch. X-rays that gave doctors magic X-rays, Wilkins. Watson and Crick, who discovered the structure of DNA. as well as other remarkable researchers who laid the foundations of today's medicine.