The history of medicine knows many great names. Some doctors and researchers have made such important discoveries in medicine that their names have gone down in history along with 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 practitioners of medicine of the past and present, who became famous in various fields of medical science: in surgery, the study of the human body and the effects of the environment on it, in the development of disease symptoms, problems of diagnosis and prevention, in the creation of the most complex treatment methods and medical devices now known to everyone, etc. The reader will get acquainted with the truly heroic, selfless life of 100 great figures of world medicine. Among them are Asclepius and Avicenna, Paracelsus and Harvey, Larrey and Pirogov, Pasteur and Sechenov, Mechnikov and Pavlov, Bekhterev and Ilizarov...