This book will take you to a period of breakthroughs in medicine and will allow you to become witnesses of important scientific events that largely determined their time and our lives today.

The author talks about medical and technical discoveries from the point of view of doctors and scientists that moved science forward, and places their developments in the context of history. What personal issue did Darwin approach as systematically as he approached his theory? What emergencies on board was the Titanic's doctor prepared for? What discovery did Freud not make? Why did the famous English surgeon cut off the testicles of the patient and the fingers of his assistant during the amputation of the hip? How did the godfather influence the development of ophthalmology?

Ronald Gerste takes you on a journey into the golden age of medicine, during which unprecedented discoveries were made and incredible inventions appeared that filled more and more blank spots on the map of scientific possibilities and saved many lives .