Shortly after graduating, Dr. Matteo Chi managed to charm his way into a cushy job as the court physician to Duke Vittorio Pomodori. Not feeling challenged with his leisurely existence punctuated by the hysterics and the hypochoriasēs and the occasional attack of gout of the aristocrats, Dr. Chi started to hit the poppy seed extract a bit too regularly.
When the duchess perished of typhoid fever, the view of the collegium was that while Dr. Chi's diagnosis was correct, as was his choice of treatment, the leeches, the treatment was applied inexcusably late and that the treating physician should also have doubled the number of leeches applied when it became apparent that sufficient response was not achieved.
Disgraced and unemployed, Dr. Chi set out to the colonies to for a new start. The harsher life provided the doctor with an opportunity to improve his surgical skills and he finally found employment under captain João, who could always use a man handy with a bone saw.
The doctor now has enough excitement in his life that, instead of pharmaceuticals, he mostly relies on his fancy sunglasses to rose tint his world and keep him safe from his troubling pain.
The captain's obsession, the mythical treasure of Great Bonanza, just might provide the doctor with a miracle cure to help him with his main goal: To discredit the use of leeches as the golden standard of treatment to most ailments and regain his reputation.
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