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{{Infobox main|medicine
| name = Medicine
| image = Medicine.png|Medicine
| description = A kit of industrial-era medical equipment. It contains basic drugs, tools for suturing and bone setting, diagnostic devices, and various pads and fluids.
<!-- Base Stats -->
| type = Medical Items
| type2 = Medicine
| hp = 60
| deterioration = 2
| marketvalue = 18
| beauty = -4
| mass base = 0.5
| flammability = 0.7
| stack limit = 25
| path cost = 15
| rotatable = false
<!-- Medical -->
| medical potency base = 1
| medical quality max = 1
<!-- Creation -->
| production facility 1 = Drug lab
| work to make = 700
| resource 1 = Cloth
| resource 1 amount = 3
| resource 2 = Herbal medicine
| resource 2 amount = 1
| resource 3 = Neutroamine
| resource 3 amount = 1
<!-- Technical -->
| defName = Medicine
<!-- Unused -->
| always haulable = true
| draw gui overlay = true
| graphic class = Graphic_Single
| graphic path = Things/Item/Resource/Medicine
| label = medicine
| parent name = ResourceBase
| resource readout priority = Middle
| selectable = true
| sound drop = Standard_Drop
| sound interact = Standard_Drop
| thing class = Medicine
| use hit points = true
}}
'''Medicine''', also called '''industrial-tech medicine''', is an expendable item used in [[doctoring]].

== Acquisition ==
Medicine can either be purchased from traders, looted from [[raider]]s, or crafted at a [[drug lab]] using 3 [[cloth]], 1 [[herbal medicine]] and 1 [[neutroamine]] (skill requirement: intellectual 4+ and crafting 4+). Crafting medicine requires the "Medicine production" research to have been completed. Its [[Drug Synthesis Speed|synthesis speed]] is dependent on the [[Skills#Intellectual|Intellectual]] skill.

== Efficiency ==
Superior to [[herbal medicine]] but inferior to [[glitterworld medicine]]. 

Best used for treating diseases and infections; misused if for standard injuries (unless a colonist is bleeding out faster than the herbal medicine completes to patch the wound). 

Good enough for surgical operations in many cases, with a low chance of failure. If the doctor is bionic-enhanced, trauma savant, drug-enhanced or inspired then you can guarantee the max 98% success rate for most surgeries. 

It is adequate against [[plague]] and [[malaria]] with ordinary beds so long as the patients are resting full-time, well-fed, constantly treated and the doctor is healthy with medicine skill 8+.

== Version history ==
* In 1.0 it received a new description.

[[Category:Medical Item]] [[Category:Medicine]]