There have been discoveries in the history of medicine, without which it would never have become a modern science, sometimes capable of working real miracles and curing even the most serious diseases. It is precisely such discoveries that 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, Leeuwenhoek, and the fighters against infectious diseases, Pasteur and Koch. Roentgen, who gave doctors the 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.