The history of medicines is inseparable from the history of civilization and is no less fascinating for its ups and downs, wars and exploits, discoveries and adventures. But although there is not a single unnamed pill, vaccine or drug, the names of their creators often remain in the shadows. Our book is an attempt to at least partially correct this injustice and tell about the great medicines that changed the fate of mankind. And their great authors. It is thanks to them that plague, cholera, tuberculosis, smallpox are left behind today.