These days, medicines for almost every possible ailment are so plentifully available that we tend to take their existence for granted. Till just about half a century back, there were but few antibiotics available and nobody had heard of CAT scan or MRI. We never bother to think as to how these medicines have been developed in the first place. The medicines, surgeries and diagnostic tools that we have today at our disposal have not crash-landed amongst us overnight. Thousands of extremely brilliant scientists toiled extremely hard over the centuries to take us where we are. It has been a long and arduous journey indeed. Many of the medicines of the past were outrageous combinations of the most obnoxious and toxic things, and most surgeries used to be horrible, brutal affairs. This book, for the first time in the world, presents the fascinating history of the development of medicine and surgery in the world, from ancient Egypt to Greece, Rome, India, and China to Europe during the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the modern period. Presented in a most lucid and spell-binding style without any jargon, this book is a must-read for every person who has ever wondered how medical science developed over the ages.