Medicine

Medicine is one of the twelve major skills, and governs over healing, amputation, recovery, and the creation of any medicines and poisons.

Summary
Medicine is a skill based around knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, and includes subset skills such as recovery from an injury, identifying and using poisons, and knowing the pressure points of the body. It receives a bonus from the Survival skill (and vice versa) when using plants to treat or to kill. In the case of using street drugs, it provides a bonus to Street Smarts. When creating medicines from scratch, it receives a bonus from Chemistry.