Kate remembered seeing his name inside a book belonging to Henry’s mother. Perhaps while she was alive, the Queen had provided him with money for his experiments, thought Kate, and he had given her that book as a gift of thanks. While Doña Elvira was secretively telling Sanctorius Kate’s problems, namely limited memory, which she attributed to tiredness of the brain, Kate cast about the room, noting a long table with various unfamiliar items. Among the mysteries laid out there stood an old-fashioned weigh scale and a dozen jars full of things that resembled prunes. Soon Kate realized that these were leeches. She quickly strode past the table and over to the bookshelf, where she poked into various large volumes, all of which had the name Theophrastus Bombastus von Santorio on the inside cover. The name brought a smile to her face and, after a while, she couldn’t resist asking in the most polite manner who Theophrastus Bombastus von Santorio was.
