Item from The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Jennifer's domain — the complete knowledge of biological systems and how to repair any damage to any living thing.
The catalog of healing contains complete knowledge of how living bodies work — every species, every system, every possible injury and its repair. Jennifer has studied it to the point where she perceives biology the way Peter perceives mathematics: as a system with knowable rules that can be manipulated. She can heal wounds that modern medicine would call fatal. The cost is an intimate, granular understanding of exactly how bodies break, which has made her simultaneously the most compassionate and most clinical of the siblings.
Clinical and warm simultaneously. The healing catalog looks like an impossible combination of a medieval apothecary, a modern surgical theater, and something else — spaces where bodies are displayed as living diagrams, each system visible and comprehensible. The light is steady and clear. The air smells of herbs, antiseptic, and the faintest trace of blood. Everything is organized with the precision of someone who needs to find what they're looking for in an emergency.
Also known as: the healing catalog, Jennifer's catalog, the medicine stacks