About the book: 2021 / In the historical images of past centuries that have reached us, we find the figure of a man who bandages the wound of a warrior who fell in battle. Classic prose rarely goes without a doctor as a character. The book about the profession of a doctor, its evolution in the change of centuries and at the carnival of continents, was written by a prominent representative of the Russian literary Abroad, a professional doctor who left behind him a long journey from a village doctor to a resident of capital clinics, a candidate of medical sciences. Boris's book