in re: the plague!
Anyone who might want to do something healing-related please drop me a line, I am always down to make up fantasy treatment regimens & have Sabina tut tut and perform grisly impromptu surgeries.
If you're trying to come up with symptoms your character might be exhibiting, Jan and I established some of the horrible grossness here when Sabina and Cormac were in the outlands. Basically, think bubonic plague -- boils, blackened flesh, fever. It's pretty foul.
Oh and any of Sabina's white magic students who would want to know what she advised etc, please feel free to ask! I am at your disposal.