Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov byl neobychayno schedr: on sozdal neveroyatno tochnye anatomicheskie atlasy, unikalnuyu tehniku provedeniya operatsiy, pridumal instrumenty, kotorymi lyuboy hirurg mozhet provesti operatsiyu horosho i bystro, sovershil revolyutsiyu v obezbolivanii, stal osnovopolozhnikom voenno-polevoy hirurgii. A esche on podelilsya s nami svoim mirovozzreniem, svoimi ubezhdeniyami i nravstvennymi idealami.
Vremya, potrachennoe na chtenie etogo akademicheskogo izdaniya ne proydet zrya, i vy ne raz budete ee vspominat!