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{{Define|Medicine
| always haulable = true
| def name = Medicine
| description = Medical staff use these supplies to heal the wounded.
| draw gui overlay = true
| e type = Medicine
| graphic class = Graphic_Single
| graphic path = Things/Item/Resource/Medicine
| label = medicine
| parent name = ResourceBase
| path cost = 15
| resource readout priority = Middle
| rotatable = false
| selectable = true
| sound drop = Standard_Drop
| sound interact = Standard_Drop
| stack limit = 75
| thing class = Medicine
| use hit points = true
| deterioration rate base = 2
| flammability base = 1.0
| market value base = 18
| max hit points base = 60
| medical potency base = 1
| mass = 0.5
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Medicine is an 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]] , herbal medicine and [[neutroamine]] (skill requirement: medicine 6+ and crafting 3+, the pawn must also be capable of intellectual work).

== 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 or drug-enhanced then you can guarantee 100% 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+.


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