Treatment

Appropriate remedies – herbs,
drugs, etc. – can provide a bonus to
the cyclic HT rolls to shake off certain
diseases. At TL6+, antibiotics (e.g.,
penicillin) give +3 to recover from
most bacterial diseases. At any TL, a
physician’s care provides the same
bonuses to recover from disease that it
gives to recover from injuries (see
Medical Care, p. 424).
However, some diseases are drug-
resistant, in which case ordinary
medicine gives no bonus. At TL7+,
drug treatments can often mitigate
the effects of such illnesses – usually
by reducing damage or lengthening
interval – but these aren’t cures.
Radiation treatment, gene therapy,
nanotech, magic, and psi might still
work, however.