This is the history of evidence-based medicine of the 16th–20th centuries, presented in the form of short illustrated stories. The book describes both well-known and completely unknown facts. Doctors-researchers, doctors-innovators, doctors-writers, doctors-patients, doctors-politicians - they all made amazing discoveries and feats to save the lives of patients. You will learn about the most significant operations that laid the foundation for the development of the main areas of medicine; about how the causative agents of deadly diseases were discovered and about the victory over them; how treatments for chronic diseases and acute conditions were developed; how they invented and improved medical equipment and vital drugs. The author clearly explains complex medical terms and the essence of important physiological processes. There is no fiction in the book: the presented facts are supported by careful verification in specialized literature and periodicals, memoirs, interviews, lectures, and archival materials.