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Heroes in the fight against disease

History of medicine from the earliest times to the present. The author presents the medical knowledge of the most ancient civilizations and puts it in the context of contemporary medical knowledge.

František Gel engagingly tells the history of medicine from the earliest times to the present. The astonishing knowledge of physicians in ancient Egypt, China, Mesopotamia, India, Greece, Rome is linked to important medical discoveries of the modern era. It deals with the history of the Red Cross, introduces the great figures of modern medicine and the achievements of contemporary medicine. "Pain is older than all our technical conveniences. Pain and disease have certainly accompanied mankind since the beginning of time. What people did against it at the time, we don't know exactly. Even from these prehistoric times, we have preserved monuments that prove the occurrence of diseases and the efforts of people to fight them," recalls František Gel. How medicine has evolved since those times is clear from this engaging narrative.

The audiobook was produced with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.