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Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th-century Venice: a female who practices drugs. Her father, a renowned medical professional, has provided her entrée to the all-male occupation, and encouraged in her a shared mission to comprehend the secrets of the body. Then her father disappears, and Gabriella faces a crisis: She is no longer allowed to take care of her patients, women who need her desperately, without her father's patronage. She pieces out across European countries to find where - and just why - he has gone. Following hints from his periodic enigmatic letters, Gabriella crosses Switzerland, Germany, and France, coming into unusual and forbidding locations. She moves to Scotland, the Netherlands, and finally to Morocco. In each new land she probes the mystery of her father's flight and starts new mysteries of her own. Not only mysteries of health conditions and treatments, but ultimate mysteries of mortality, love, and the ageless human spirit. Filled up with medical lore and sensuous, stunning information on Renaissance life, The E book of Madness and Treatments is an intoxicating and memorable debut.
