Originally, research was nonexistent.  All efforts and resources were put towards handling the patients with whatever means available.  As the new century progressed, so did the methods of treatment.  Psychotherapy, analysis, insulin shock, electroshock, lobotomies, and medication.  But in the background, parallel to the timeline of techniques, the seed of research slowly grew.  Cure, more than treatment, was the ultimate goal.  With the seven labs completed under the authority of Rasellas, understanding the power of the Libri Verum was now only a matter of time.

Each of the seven labs on the premises had a specific assignment.  Although the team members disliked any attempt to simplify an explanation of their work, the first six labs were given appropriate nicknames - Who, What, Where, When, How, and Why.

Who does the book effect?

What causes such the reaction?

Where are the outbreaks most concentrated?

When does the content take effect, once read?

How do these words interact with the mind?

Why is it so lethal?

The seventh and most restricted lab was the eventual home of the MacStranton Experiment.  Even I don't know all the horrific details of this incredibly disastrous trial, but what I do know, I'm unwilling to discuss.  All I will say is that we are all still haunted - and I mean that more literally than you will ever know - by its outcome.

Following the format of the first doctors who examined the book in the previous century, no lab was allowed to have the entire Libri Verum within its walls.  The pages were divided amongst them as a precaution.  But something went wrong.  Three researchers, each from a different lab, became patients before the first month was up, and one succeeded in committing suicide.  This didn't make sense.  Why had the first team of doctors been unaffected?

Thus the first priority fell on the Who lab.  They came up with an excellent theory that perhaps specific pages effect certain personality types more.  If each page could be carefully summarized and given a label based on its content, then the pages could be assigned according to each individual's strongest characteristic trait.  Unfortunately, all the reports previously completed were too vague.  The pages would have to be examined again.

But by who?