Guide to Medicine

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So you are a Feldsher, and/or someone has wandered into town, screaming their lungs out and bleeding everywhere. What are you to do? Well, first things first, it's best not to panic. Secondly, follow this guide!

Basic Medicine

The most powerful tool you have in healing wounds is sleeping in a bed. Assuming an injury is a bruise or cut, a quick rest will fix a patient right up. Otherwise, you can bind an injury with cloth; just target that limb using your numpad and click on the patient with a cloth in-hand. You can also stitch wounds using a needle, which takes a bit longer but is slightly more effective in healing injuries.

If the patient has bled excessively, they will likely look anemic upon examination. Much like in real life, bleeding out means you will gradually die. In order to replenish your blood, drink lots of water or force someone to drink water. As a Feldsher, a good strategy is to store a full bottle of water in your surgery bag for quick administration to a patient.

Surgery

Here is where things start getting a little more complex. If someone has a broken bone, severed artery, or a severed limb, it is the Feldsher's job to fix them up. Godly miracles from the priests and acolytes can only go so far!

First, when you are performing surgery, YOU MUST BE ON "WEAK" INTENT. This will drastically increase your chance to perform a proper surgery.

Second, you should ideally get your patient to lie down somewhere, be it on a bed, operating table, or sitting on a chair. Ensure they are strapped to something. Ideally, they should also be sleeping to promote healing. This will further increase the surgery's chance of success.

Third, acquire your examination hammer from your surgery bag. Select the Use intent and tap the patient with the hammer. You will get a readout of their condition, such as which limb is broken or which is bleeding horribly.

Now, it is time to choose the appropriate surgery. Select from the drop-down menus below.

Opening a Surgical Site

1. Target the desired limb.
2. Use your scalpel to make an incision.
3. Open the incision with a speculum. The speculum will embed in the wound to keep it open. Don't panic.
4. Clamp bleeders with forceps (just one of them, you'll need the other). This forceps will also embed in the wound.

Closing a Surgical Site

1. Target the desired limb.
2. Remove any embedded tools with your forceps.
3. Close the incision with a needle.

Bone Repair and Dislocation

1. Open the surgical site.
2. Set the bones with a bonesetter.
3. Fix the damage with forceps.
4. Close the surgical site.

Artery Mending and General Tending

1. Open the surgical site.
2. Sew up the damage with a needle.
3. Close the surgical site.

Cosmetic Surgery

1. Target the face.
2. Open the surgical site.
3. Use a scalpel to repair the face.
4. Heat a cautery and apply it to the wound.
5. Close the surgical site.

Embedded Object Removal

1. Open the surgical site.
2. Use the forceps to remove embedded objects.
3. Close the surgical site.

Limb Reattachement

Currently, you can just put someone on an operating table and apply the limb to their missing one. This is probably because something is not working correctly in the code.

In theory, the order of operations is as such:

1. Open the surgical site on the missing limb.
2. Use a bone saw to saw off the stump.
3. Apply limb to stump.
4. Close the surgical site.
5. Seal the wound further with a cautery.

Keeping The Patient Alive During Surgery

Once again, it's strongly advised to have your patient lain on an operating table and sleeping during their surgery. This means that they can outheal any more severe wounds that you accidentally give them. Feeding them water so they don't bleed out will also help keep them alive.