Healing

Just like humans, magical creatures are susceptible to ill health, the most common cases being either trauma (injury) or disease. Both are treated the same way for creatures as they are for humans (Art & Academe, pages 56–61), and both can be remedied by Hermetic magic. The main distinction is that the only necessary Ability for treating both trauma and disease is Animal Handling. Medicine and Chirurgy are ineffectual when used on animals and are solely used for curing human beings.

Another difference from human patients is that animals can be returned from the dead with Hermetic magic. The animal must have died due to trauma, disease, deprivation, or starvation. Those that are slain must be put back together first. Unfortunately for the menagerie owner, only mundane animals can be automatically raised from the dead.

The Breath of Life Returned

CrAn 80 R: Touch, D: Mom, T: Ind, Ritual

This spell returns a mundane animal of up to Size +1 to life.

(Base 75, +1 Touch, Ritual)

Required Lab Total: 1 season (160), 2 seasons (120), 3 seasons (107), 4 seasons (100)

Common Creature Diseases

The following are ailments that creatures are susceptible to.

Gingivitis

Minor Sanguine Disease, Severity 7 Stable: 6, Improve: 12, Interval: Month

Gingivitis is a very common ailment for large herbivores, often the result of too much stored grain as food and not enough living grass. If left untreated, gingivitis causes tooth loss.

Symptoms: Swollen gums, odorous breath, loose teeth

Hoof and Mouth

Mild Phlegmatic Disease, Severity 9 Stable: 4, Improve: 18, Interval: Week While not fatal, this disease spreads quickly among the herd, primarily cows, sheep, and goats, and is difficult to cure. Hoof and Mouth disease causes extreme discomfort in the animal and ultimately

Symptoms: Lesions on the hoof and ulcers in the mouth

Rabies

Serious Choleric Disease, Severity 13 Stable: 9, Improve: 18, Interval: Week Rabies is detailed in Art & Academe, page 49, and only the statistical information is

repeated. This animal disease can also affect humans.

reduces milk production.

Spavin

Minor Melancholic Disease, Severity 12 Stable: 12, Improve: 18, Interval: Season Spavin is the hardening of the cartilage in a quadruped's joints, causing

Symptoms: Spavin is very difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are not easily noticeable. Sometimes a joint will appear swollen, but usually only over a very long time.