Editing Epidemics guide (section)

== Medicines and diagnosing ==

 '''Never use medicine which has strength of over 10.'''
 20% skill for diagnose is enough to give accurate infection level reading (survivalists gives you this)
 Pill/potion/elixir strength is measured in numbers (0-100).
 Measure medicine is used in 2 ways: to measure medicine's current potency, and to alter it (Alcemists).
 '''Currently there is a bug that resets the new potions (theriac etc.) when you put in vial container and take out!''' '''DO NOT TRUST PRE-MEASURED POTIONS LIKE THIS, UNTILL THIS GETS FIXED, RE-MEASURE BEFORE USE OR ONLY USE FRESHLY-CREATED POTIONS.'''
 Maximum amount of ANY ''one'' medicine (pill x, salve x, potion x, elixir x) is 10! Any more than this, and you get overdosed.
 You will not be overdosed if you take 10 antifever and 10 painkiller, assuming you have matching symptoms (pain, fever). But if you take 12 painkiller or 12 antifever or 12 pill strong potion of Theriac, you '''will''' be overdosed because you exceeded the limit of 10 for one type.
 Safest way is to measure medicine at -1 of your target level (if you want 10, measure it to 9 to be safe).
 Medicine levels in your blood drop by 1 * every 15 min or so.
 Getting cured takes some time (15 min - 1h), and if you are at stage 2 or 3 you might need multiple cures ''taken over a long period of time to avoid overdose''.



How to read a diagnosis report:

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In the image above (non-air priest diagnosis) you can see the patient is in stage 0 (dormant stage) with 8 drops of bacteria in his bloodstream (infection level), and is closing to stage 1. This means that he should start to diagnose himself or ask getting diagnosed bit more often. He is completely symptom-free and safe until he hits the magic mark of 10 drops, after which he moves onto stage 1.

Stage 1 means he should now start getting medicine if possible. Since currently there is only 1 disease around, it is safe to assume he has that one (minor disease) and he will want a cure for that disease. Depending on how far he is in stage 1, is how you want to measure your medicine. If he is at 14 drops total, 
he does not need very strong medicine, but if he is at 20 drops, he might want max (10, or to be safe, 9) strength potion of theriac (or one of the other cures mentioned in "help epidemics", Known diseases-section, listed cures for "minor disease").

If he drinks the potion, and it was indeed a minor disease, his infection level will start to go down within the hour. If by some chance it does not, it probably means he has a other type of disease! If this is the case, you will need to wait for symptoms before you can find a match to the symptoms in "help epidemics" and then medicate accordingly.

You can use the "Active medicine in bloodstream" section to help make sure you don't overdose in case patient needs more medicine: If he has 5 drops in his bloodstream, maximum amount you can give more is 5 drops, or he overdoses.

'''I do not know how accurate this section is for non-air priests with low skill!'''

Air priests also see more than what non-air priests see with diagnose.

'''Do not medicate until you are at stage 1.''' Afaik doing so will either cause problems or do nothing.