Doctor, Hussar, Musketeer, or Chronicles of Medical Life in Russia

8 hrs. 54 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexander Bushkov

Narrator Alexander Klyukvin

Alexander Bushkov’s book reveals secrets and answers the most curious questions about the medical life of Russia.

How did doctors become famous whose names everyone knows: Hippocrates, Haas, Sklifosovsky, Pirogov? Did the ringing of church bells really save cities from a plague epidemic? Why did women in childbirth die from “bad air”? Why did the English queen send Ivan the Terrible her personal physician?

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