Yeah that's right, people here from all sorts of different places, huh. Leon's decided by now to stop trying to assume anything about anything as best he can, but it does kinda follow from his familiarity with books and movies about wizards that there's not a lot of overlap between being a wizard and knowing things about modern medicine.
"I'm not a doctor, so I may get this kinda wrong," he says. "But they're a type of medicine that makes you more resistant to a specific disease. I think a lot of them work by taking a dead or near-dead form of whatever causes the illness and training your body to fight it in that safer form, so it knows how to react when the real thing comes along. It's more complicated than that, and it doesn't work for every kind of sickness, but that's the long and short of it."
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Yeah that's right, people here from all sorts of different places, huh. Leon's decided by now to stop trying to assume anything about anything as best he can, but it does kinda follow from his familiarity with books and movies about wizards that there's not a lot of overlap between being a wizard and knowing things about modern medicine.
"I'm not a doctor, so I may get this kinda wrong," he says. "But they're a type of medicine that makes you more resistant to a specific disease. I think a lot of them work by taking a dead or near-dead form of whatever causes the illness and training your body to fight it in that safer form, so it knows how to react when the real thing comes along. It's more complicated than that, and it doesn't work for every kind of sickness, but that's the long and short of it."