You need to have courage to treat people

“You need to have courage to treat people, express your beliefs and fight for them,” wrote the legendary doctor I. Sechenov. I must admit that the creator of new science - physiology, possessed not only courage, but also courage. When he had to appear before the court for the propaganda of excessive materialism, he said: “Why do I need a lawyer? I will take a frog with me and do all my experiments to the judges: let the prosecutor then refutes me. ”
It was I. Sechenov that proved that our thoughts and actions are just the result of the work of nerve cells in the brain. For the first time made a detailed blood test. He became the author of the theory of muscle as an organ of cognition. This legendary doctor became the prototype of the main characters in the novels" Fathers and Children "and what to do?"
The book proposed is the memoirs of I. Sechenov himself, which describes the everyday life of an ordinary doctor, as well as a simple and easy language, the essence of the discoveries of the scientist is told