Medical Encyclopedia

**SPOILER WARNING:** *This page may contain spoilers to the plot of Fable SMP. Please read with caution.*

## Medical Encyclopedia

### Current Location

Rae's Collection

Seeing as Rae may be the closest thing they have to a doctor, he has begun constructing an encyclopedia to store knowledge about anything medical for the server's reference. It includes things about the wither sickness, the ender eye transplant, and the sculk.

In Season 3, this book was found in the Pillager Mansion they found Arisanna in. Scribbled inside are various notes written by the pillagers, displaying their thoughts about the contents of the book. In this transcription, these notes will be written within brackets to distinguish the original from the new.

## Transcription

[ A note has been written on the inside cover of the book:

Be weary of the information in here. Some of it is sound, but there is talks of gods, magic shit, and monsters in here too. Could just be the work of a deranged fanatic. Proceed with caution. ]

This book is intended to be an encyclopedia of the medical knowledge of Rae Morningstar. I do not claim to be a doctor, but with no other experts around, I'm assembling these notes to do my best to fill that role.

Potions and Healing

[ A note scribbled in the margins: This info is actually pretty helpful. Have the medics work on more regen potions. ]

Health potions: These potions work on a very superficial level. They can be used to close open wounds or relieve pain making them good for small injuries or life threatening situations where time is of the essence. They can also be good to take before a painful procedure as a means of pain relief.

Deep or serious injuries should be set and cleaned before healing potions are applied, otherwise it could create more problems than it solves.

Regeneration potions: While these potions work more slowly than healing potions, they are more corrective. If an injury is not life threatening, or has been properly set and cleaned, regen will help the body heal properly. Regen should not be used before a procedure as while the potion is in effect, it will possibly actively undo the work attempted by the producer.

Both of these potions can be ingested, applied topically, inhaled, or injected.

Potions of Undying: These are newer potions so not all properties are known. Such as the effect on a grievous injury. At this time, they have served well as a kind of enhanced strength potion- good for use in fights or risky situations to prevent injury.

[ None of us have heard of this kind of potion before. By the name alone, it implies that someone actually succeeded in transferring the allay essence into a potion. Send a note to the alchemists immediately. If this is possible, then we must look into it further. ]

Potions and other Medical Effects

Weakness Potion: Used in low dosage, these potions can serve as a mild numbing agent in producers. It is risky though as too high of a dose can render users unconscious.

[ Send an additional note to the alchemists- More potent weakness potions could be of great benefit in combat. ]

Known Medical Ailments

[ The information here starts to get more questionable. None of these "ailments" even seem real. ]

Wither Sickness
Cause: Potion of Wither coming into contact with the bloodstream

Symptoms: Blackening veins, degradation of the body starting from the point of contact, weakness, fatigue, pain, eventual death of the infected

Treatment: Potion made from the flower grown by a Nether Star. It is unclear if these flowers can be grown by mortals or require godly intervention. Healing and regen potions only serve as pain relief and do not help the source of the problem.

[ See what I mean? Talking about planting Nether stars and "godly intervention". This casts doubt on the validity of the information here. ]

[ We have found some of this Sculk material. While the information seems doubtful I've warned the others not to burn it. Just in case. ]

Sculk Sickness
Cause: Inhaling sculk spores into the respiratory system. Current known spore sources include burning sculk (high volume of spores) and sculk shriekers (low volume). The sickness has shown no evidence of being contagious.

Symptoms: Coughing, chest pain, difficulty breathing. When the illness progresses, can cause coughing up of blood, fatigue, pain. It is unclear if severe sickness will always result in transformation to the sculk creature.

Treatment: Cure unknown. Mild sickness appears to go away on its own if the subject is exposed to a lower spore volume. Server sculk sickness is aggravated by heat. Cold climates can help. Health and regen potions only work as pain relief.

If sculk markings have appeared on the skin, do not attempt to remove them through surgical methods. The markings and skin tissue cannot be separated and will result in scarring with no improvement to the disease.

Sculk Injuries
Cause: Severe injury received from the sculk creature. Injury appears to be blunt force instead of piercing or slashing.

Symptoms: The injured area is covered in a layer of sculk veins, making the underlying injury difficult if not impossible to treat until removed.

Treatment: See Cold Sculk Treatment in Known Medical Procedures

[ Scouts have seen the deep caves that it grows in. Perhaps we advise avoiding this material. ]

Elytra Injury
Cause: Severe damage to elytra while still worn by the user resulting in the wings breaking.

[ What is "elytra"? ]

[ A second, revision note appears to have been added later:

The wings. The ones in the skies must be using these "elytra" to find us. Advise raiding parties to aim for the wings. If they truly can feel them, this should very quickly take them down.

Attempt to get a pair of these "elytra". If you can down one, cut them off if you must. This tool would give an incredible advantage. ]

Symptoms: Severe pain and possible nerve damage. The damaged elytra may fail to come off naturally and will need to be manually removed.

Treatment: Improved treatment still needs to be found. Recommend in the cause of a future elytra injury that the patient's wings are invested prior to removal. See if it is possible to restore the wings while they are still connected to the user. If that is not possible, a more delicate method of removal should be investigated.

Known Medical Procedures

Common Practices: When performing procedures, make sure the area and equipment are clean. Tools used should be diamond grade at full durability. Low doses of weakness potions can be used for numbing. High for anesthesia. Health potions before the procedure to help with pain. Do not use regen potions prior to procedure if it involves surgical cutting. Regen is good for recovery after procedure is complete and injuries are cleaned and any broken bones are set.

Eye of Ender Transplant: This procedure is NOT recommended for inexperienced personnel. The intended subject is myself, Rae Morningstar, to enhance my own ability to see energy auras. It is unknown what effect, if any, this procedure would have on another subject.

The procedure is an eye transplant where a normal eye is replaced with an Eye of Ender. First off, a proper Eye of Ender must be crafted to the size of a humanoid eye.

First the existing organic eye must be removed. Potions of weakness and healing are recommended to aid in the procedure. As soon as the organic eye is removed and the optic nerve severed, regen potions should be consumed to maintain the health of the nerve and slow bleeding. The Eye of Ender should immediately be inserted into the eye socket and a steady supply of regen consumed until pain and bleeding stop.

[ What on earth is this procedure meant to be? It sounds "experiments" than a medical practice. Or even a torture method. ]

Cold Sculk Treatment: To remove sculk veins from a sculk injury, first the afflicted area should be chilled in powdered snow until the sculk is rendered inert. At this point, the veins can carefully be cut away from the skin without damage to the patient. The process should be done slowly and may need to be done in several small sessions to not put the patient in too much pain. Health potions taken before the procedure can help.