Bright light. Brilliance of surgical instruments. Even попискивание of electric devices. A sympathetic doctor is in gloves, mask and white dressing-gown. Approximately so we all imagine a modern operating-room, although she became such quite recently, passing the long and often bloody way of tests and errors. By this book Arnold of ван de Лаар invites a reader in an enthralling trip in time. Together with him you know, as modern surgery developed, will become acquainted with the known patients for all world history and will spy at work of the most famous surgeons of the epoch - from Hippocrates to Харви Кушинга.