Who knew Heimlich is not as old as Hippocrates. Like the author Heimlich says more people have heard about the maneuver than the right way to apply it. You have read about it and seen it in movies. That comes much later in the book and his life. Before that, how his medical career started and all the amazing medical devices he invented - Heimlich chest drain value, ingenious ways of treating trachoma and saving people from blindness by making do with what little he had, It doesnt end there. Reverse Gastric surgery. Wow, magician of the human body.