Editing Medicine

{{Infobox main|medicine
| name = Medicine
| image = Medicine industrial a.png
| description = A kit of industrial-era medical equipment. It contains basic drugs, tools for suturing and bone setting, diagnostic devices, and various pads and fluids.
<!-- Base Stats -->
| type = Medical Items
| type2 = Medicine
| tech level = Industrial
| hp = 60
| deterioration = 2
| marketvalue = 18
| beauty = -4
| mass base = 0.5
| flammability = 0.7
| stack limit = 25
| path cost = 14
| rotatable = false
<!-- Medical -->
| medical potency base = 1
| medical quality max = 1
<!-- Creation -->
| production facility 1 = Drug lab
| work to make = 700
| work speed stat = Drug Synthesis Speed
| research = Medicine production
| resource 1 = Cloth
| resource 1 amount = 3
| resource 2 = Herbal medicine
| resource 2 amount = 1
| resource 3 = Neutroamine
| resource 3 amount = 1
| bulk product amount = 4
<!-- Technical -->
| defName = MedicineIndustrial
<!-- Unused -->
| always haulable = true
| draw gui overlay = true
| graphic class = Graphic_Single
| graphic path = Things/Item/Resource/Medicine
| label = medicine
| parent name = ResourceBase
| resource readout priority = Middle
| selectable = true
| sound drop = Standard_Drop
| sound interact = Standard_Drop
| thing class = Medicine
| use hit points = true
}}
'''Medicine''', also called '''industrial-tech medicine''' in the [[Health#Health tab|Health tab]], is an expendable 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]], 1 [[herbal medicine]] and 1 [[neutroamine]] (skill requirement: intellectual 4+ and crafting 4+). Crafting medicine requires the "Medicine production" research to have been completed. Its [[Drug Synthesis Speed|synthesis speed]] is dependent on the [[Skills#Intellectual|Intellectual]] skill.

== Summary ==
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Any form of medicine can be used whenever a [[doctoring|doctor]] tends to an [[injury]] or [[disease]]. In most cases, medicine does not directly cause healing. Instead, using medicine and better medicine will increase [[tend quality]], increasing the [[injury#Healing rate|rate of healing]] for injuries, or slowing down progression of a disease. For [[gut worms]] and [[muscle parasites]], tend quality is directly used to cure the disease.

With a Medical Potency of 100%, medicine has a 100% multiplier on both tend quality and surgery success. [[Herbal medicine]] and lower care 


Medicine does not spoil, but will [[deteriorate]] when left outside.
===Experience===
{{Medicine Experience Gain Table}}

== Analysis ==
Superior to [[herbal medicine]] but inferior to [[glitterworld medicine]]. 

Industrial medicine is best used for [[disease]]s and [[surgery]], where Medical Potency has the greatest impact. A dose or two of medicine can save a colonist's life from the [[plague]]. So long as patients are constantly treated by a decent doctor, resting full-time, and well-fed, this medicine should be enough against any disease.

It is generally misused for bruises, cuts, and other [[injuries]]. These are usually too common to waste high-quality medicine on; use herbal medicine or no medicine instead. But if a colonist is bleeding out rapidly, you may want to use better medicine for its increased tend speed and quality. Note that colonists are set to use the best quality medicine by default. In the [[assign]] tab, you can set colonists and other pawns to [[herbal medicine]] or worse. You can also alter this in a colonist's Health tab.

Regular medicine is enough to reach the 98% [[surgery|surgery success chance cap]], under the right circumstances. A ''healthy'' doctor with Medical 8 can reach the surgery cap (for most surgeries) in a [[light|lit]], [[clean]] room, using a normal quality [[hospital bed]]. Without a hospital bed (or [[sterile tile]]), Medical 11 is required for the same thing. Note that many factors, such as a dirty room or a surgeon's damaged [[Manipulation]], will quickly lower your success rates.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Medicine industrial a.png|One medicine
Medicine industrial b.png|Partial stack
Medicine industrial c.png|Full stack
</gallery>

== Version history ==
* 1.0 - Received a new description.
* [[Version/1.4.3523|1.4.3523]] - Added recipe for bulk medicine creation.

<gallery>
Medicine industrial old 4.png|Fourth texture
Medicine industrial old 3.png|Third texture
Medicine industrial old 2.png|Second texture
Medicine industrial old.png|First texture
</gallery>

[[Category:Medical Item]] [[Category:Medicine]]