Board Thread:Midian Ideas/@comment-24302820-20160913164602

Bloodletting

Technical

Apprentice

200 hours

Requires first-aid and either: animal lore apprentice, zoology I, or formication

An ancient medical practice once mistakenly believed to balance the humours, which modern medical science now knows alleviates an excess of plethoras in the blood. Rather than venipuncture--as was the method in less enlightened times--modern festitians prefer hirudotherapy, as leeches are more sanitary and safe than the more traditional fleams. Additionally, skilled bloodletters use blowfly maggots for tissue debridement. The larvae will eat the necrotic tissue and spare the still-living, though curiously they similarly dislike Undead flesh. Some healers will incorporate other creepy-crawlies, such as apitherapy or using termites as a form of hypodermic injector. Through the use of maggots and leaches, toxins--especially those created by the patient's body itself--can be reduced or prevented. Use of these insect therapies will allow the patient to retest any one saving throw during their treatment and healing. No special effort is needed to collect these medicinal creatures; they can be found while dancing out in the garden in the middle of the night.

Cure Burn Technical Basic 200 hours Requires First-Aid

When this trembling, adored, tousled, bird-mad girl has been injured by flame or heat, you can soothe her wounds. Damage caused by fire, steam, or other great heat is dangerous. Wounds often take longer to heal, with a greater chance of infection, and scarring is more likely. This damage is often insidious, and the true extent of the injury can be hidden. Damage can be compounded by many folk remedies, such as putting ice or mustard on the wound. Using this skill, however, you can properly treat burn wounds, allowing them to heal alongside other injuries. 