In the film, the historian of medicine, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences Boris Dmitrievich Petrov tells (sinhr.) About the history of medicine. Moscow city. Kremlin. Monasteries: Spaso-Andronikov, Novodevichy. Hospitals: Botkinskaya, Mariinskaya (Building of the Moscow Research Institute of Tuberculosis), MONIKI (Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute, the former Catherine Hospital), Filatovskaya, Military Hospital. N.N. Burdenko. Medical Institute named after IM Sechenov, First Moscow Medical Institute named after I.M. N.I. Pirogov. Military Academy. F.E. Dzerzhinsky. Institute of First Aid. N.V. Sklifasovsky. Surgery in one of the hospitals. Monuments: F.M. Dostoevsky, N.A. Semashko, F.P. Gaaz, N.I. Pirogov, I.M.Sechenov, N.F. Filatov, S.P. Botkin, medics of the Great Patriotic War. The interior of a medieval pharmacy in one of the museums. Interior of the House-Museum of A.P. Chekhov. The third part of the film uses c / t plans: 1914-1916. - World War I. The wounded are carried on a stretcher, loaded onto a train. Surgical operation! 940s. The Great Patriotic War. Soviet army soldiers go to the front (winter photography). Combat operations (winter shooting). The nurse is bandaging the wounded. Moscow. Military hospital. N.N.Burdenko. President of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR N. I. Burdenko during one of the operations.