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==Medicinal Skills==
 
==Medicinal Skills==
  

Revision as of 06:30, 2 August 2020

Folk Medicine icon.png Folk Medicine
"With the help of a little Folk Medicine well applied, you will ease the effects of both indigestion and sluggishness of mind."
Requirements:
Skill(s) required:
Proficiencies required:
600 Hunting & Hideworking icon.png Hunting & Hideworking
600 Sugar & Spice icon.png Sugar & Spice
700 Natural Philosophy icon.png Natural Philosophy
Skills Unlocked:
Crafts Unlocked:
Builds Unlocked:
None
Others Unlocked:

In-Game Text

"Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgement of them, it is at present far behind all the other arts."

-Hippocrates, The Law

In any colony of significant size, and especially given the harsh and at times unwelcoming conditions of the New World, injury and malady are, all in their due times, bound to make their appearances. With the help of a little Folk Medicine well applied, you will have several efficient but simple recipes at your disposal, to east and offset the effects of both indigestion and sluggishness of mind.

Disease Treatment

Once a Disease icon.png Disease is Diagnosed, it can be treated with the appropriate medication. It may take more than one dose of the medication to cure the Disease, especially if the Disease has progressed particular far, or the wrong cure has been taken. CAUTION: Taking any cure will do .2 damage to the corresponding Humour. While small it is possible to become Knocked Out in this way.

Disease Main Symptom Cure How to Apply Humour Damaged
Big Pox icon.png Big Pox Coughing Willowbark Tonic icon.png Willowbark Tonic Sip. Phlegm
Frontier Flux icon.png Frontier Flux Vomiting Columbine Paste icon.png Columbine Paste Right-click and select "Eat". Yellow Bile
Land Legs icon.png Land Legs Dizziness Smelling Salts icon.png Smelling Salts Right-click and select "Sniff". Black Bile
Maroon Fever icon.png Maroon Fever Headache Leech icon.png Leech Equip to Torso slot and let it drain Blood. Blood

Medicinal Skills

Skill Benefit
Folk Medicine icon.png Folk Medicine Treat Disease icon.png Disease and Timber Rattler Poison icon.png Timber Rattler Poison.
Rudimentary Triage icon.png Rudimentary Triage Treat Bleed icon.png Bleeds and Fracture icon.png Fractures.
Potions & Poultices icon.png Potions & Poultices Treat Quetzalcoatl Poison icon.png Quetzalcoatl Poison.
Veterinarian icon.png Veterinarian Treat Animal Disease icon.png Disease.
Pharmacology Formal icon.png Pharmacology Formal Make more Potions.
Plague Handling icon.png Plague Handling Give Disease icon.png Disease.
Illicit Pharmacognosy icon.png Illicit Pharmacognosy Inject Drugs.