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[nadine_he_loves]

I've never done a public message like this before, so I hope I'm doing it right.

My name is Nadine Cross, some of you know me already. I've recently come to the Free Cities and set up in Cadens. I'm a practicing herbologist, an amateur healer, and a student at the Cadens Academy of Medicine. And I'm available to offer patching up, potions, and other medical assistance to any of us in the Free Cities.

I'm not a doctor, I'm still learning and I have a LOT to learn, but I can handle things like bleeding wounds and burns and minor broken bones. I don't charge since I need the practice anyway, and I figure there's plenty of reasons that people like us would prefer not to have to go to a local -from discretion to expense.

But I hope you don't need my services too much.

Thank you.

Comments

[meiren]

Herbologist. An apothecary?

[nadine_he_loves]

Yeah. I worked at an apothecary in Nott and I have a part time job at one here in Cadens.

That's what I have the most experience with.

[meiren]

Is it much different here than where you come from?

[nadine_he_loves]

It is and it isn't. The world I came from was a lot more technologically advanced. But there was a long history of herbal and natural remedies, and we still used medications and had drugstores - which were like apothecaries. But there's so many more types of medicine here.

And things like setting bones and closing up gashes are the same.

[meiren]

In my experience, bodies don't change much. Available herbs, on the other hand.

[nadine_he_loves]

That's a very good point.

Two very good points, actually. There's so many more herbs and ingredients utilized here than where I came from. It's half of what I've been learning.

Do you have a history with herbalism?

[meiren]

Some, yes. I'm no doctor, but there are things I can work with. Salves, tinctures, incenses.

[ Drugs, poisons... ]

But I don't know how much of what I'm familiar with can be found here and it doesn't seem like the sort of thing to experiment with.

[nadine_he_loves]

No but you could learn about it. If you're interested. That sounds a lot like what I do.

[meiren]

Where did you learn?

[nadine_he_loves]

I first started an apprenticeship in Nott, a city in Thorne. I'm continuing that education here in Cadens.

Back in the world I came from, I just taught myself some things out of books I found.

[meiren]

Books would be a start, I suppose.

Thank you.