Medicines

Plant medicine that works, dosed by weight and recorded, up to biology as engineering.

Health Levels 2–7 2 steps written

Level 2 · Forge · 1 of 2 in this track

Plant medicine and the pharmacy

t2-medicine Guide

Build a small, honest pharmacopoeia from what grows locally.

Needs first: Fermentation and distilling (Materials), Writing and the durable record (Knowledge), Childbirth and infant survival

Guide Essential medicines
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Read Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica; Hesperian Health Guides; Manual of Surgery, Vol. 1: General Surgery and 1 more on the step page

Level 7 · Frontier · 2 of 2 in this track

t7-bio Guide

Read and write the code that living things run on.

Needs first: Antibiotics and vaccines, Computing (Computing), Electrochemistry and light metals (Materials)

Guide Biology
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Read OpenStax textbooks; LibreTexts; Hesperian Health Guides and 1 more on the step page

Every guide, build, reference sheet and book reached from the steps above.

The basic set from the WHO list: what each treats, what it is made from, and the earliest tier that can make it. No doses, on purpose.

Life from the cell up: the human body, microbes and immunity, inheritance and epidemics. Each result with what it lets you do and who first found it.

Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica Merck & Co. · Gutenberg #41697
Hesperian Health Guides Archive · ~50–400 MB
Manual of Surgery, Vol. 1: General Surgery Alexis Thomson & Alexander Miles · Gutenberg #17921
The Fundamentals of Bacteriology Charles B. Morrey · Gutenberg #43227
OpenStax textbooks Archive · ~2 GB
LibreTexts Archive · ~15 GB
Wikipedia, offline (Kiwix ZIM) Archive · ~110 GB full with images · ~55 GB no-image · ~5 GB 'best of'
WHO, Immunization in Practice Archive · Free PDF download
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Charles Darwin · Gutenberg #1228
An anatomical disquisition on the motion of the heart & blood in animals William Harvey · Gutenberg #67065
Micrographia Robert Hooke · Gutenberg #15491
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae Edward Jenner · Gutenberg #29414