Intro

•  Fellis is deadly to dragons and firelizards.  In the place of that pain killer, numbweed or another remedy can be used.
• Don't between when a dragon's in pain.  Their concentration is compromised, and that could leave dragon and rider lost forever.
• The lifemate of the healing pair can help steady the injured dragon by locking gaze and minds, with Golds being the best for this act.
• Weyrfolk don't usually get sick, except from the occasional stomach ache from overeating or drinking, or the more common kidney or liver infection.
• A rider untrained in the specifics of dragon healing can administer some relief to his own lifemate without the healer being present such as:
• Purge the dragon if constipated.
• Applying numbweed to a bitten tongue.
• Rubbing unguents into weary muscles.

• In older dragons, age and strain weakens the heart.  Signs to overexertion of a strained heart are irregular beat (usually second or third heart) and lethargy and water retention.
• Remedy: light daily exercise. Avoid stress.

• The hide can become cracked from improperly made, sized, or unoiled straps, or even some other irritant.  This can become quite painful, and even more so between.
• Remedy:

• This usually occurs from overeating in weyrling dragons, and is shown by a thickened tail.
• Remedy: Purge the system of uneliminated excreta.  Massage down the tail to help him or her relieve it.

• Caused by a multitude of things.
• Remedy:  Clean with redwort, and allow to heal uncovered.  If it's deep, suture it.  Use numbweed to deaden the pain, assist in clotting, and keeping the injured area moist.

• A dragon's bones are difficult to break, and difficult to set and heal.  Broken limbs can be caused by many things from poor landings, over exuberant flying in mating flights (where'd that rim come from?), and the like.  Simple fractures don't have the abnormal angle of bones, even rupturing hide surface, like compounds.
• Remedy:
• Simple:  If the bone is unaligned, move back into place, then place splints at 90 degrees to each other, and wrap with bandages.  Splints can be made.
• Compound:
1. Clean the injured area with redwort.
2. Align the bone edges and lock into place.  You can splint with wherry gut inside if needed.
3. Suture the damaged muscles and veins from inside or outside.
4. Wrap the splint around the injured area, using reeds and cloth.
5. Check for signs of infection and poor healing. Coat the area with numbweed 3-4 times a day until the hide has healed over.

• Another common ailment of weyrling dragons is caused by growing muscles and overdoing things.  Sometimes it's caused by older dragons from flights, sweeps, and Fall.  The signs of it are the area being favored, limping, or in the case of a wingbone, the sail will seem misshapen.
• Remedy:  Wrap the area with cloth, using reeds to immobilize if necessary, and have the dragon rest.  Sometimes swimming helps regain control of the stressed tendon.  No flying if hindleg or wing is injured this way.

•  This is usually seen in younger dragons, or in dragons with wrong sized harnesses.  The hide will seem dry, patchy and itches.
• Remedy: Oil.  The growing dragons are supposed to be oiled daily, and if this is the case more oil or a switch in the strength of it.

• Colds are evident by runny nose and lethargy.  Remedy: Plenty of water and rest.
• Pneumonia is rare, and caused by a secondary infection after an extensive thoracic injury (like Thread).  Signs of it are high temperature, labored breathing, coughing with no phlegm, dull eyes, cold hide that's clammy to the touch or hot, clammy hide.  Remedy:  Warm water, keep warm with blankets.  She/He will need to breath in steam-vapours of hysop, thymus and/or aconite.

• This can be caused by Threadscoring, and is evident by seepage of unclotted ichor.
• Remedy:  Cover with numbweed to clot the ichor.  Stitch area plus a finger's breadth on either side of the wound, using fine stitches of treated thread.  Apply numbweed and keep area moist until healed.

• See over stressing.

• Either overeating or bad firestone causes discomfort in the dragon's stomachs.
• Remedy:  If it's from firestone, this usually clears up after expelling the ash. Overeating can lend itself to other problems like constipation.

• Clean the area with redwort, treat the needles and thread.
• Gut thread is used for inside since it dissolves over time.
• Treated tanner thread is used for outside.
• Cross stitch heavily used areas.
• Back stitch the end of the suture.

• Weyrling dragons commonly lose a talon during the flying and hunting lessons.
• Remedy:  The talon will regrow in several sevendays.

• Minor scoring can be treated by the rider. A dragon is supposed to go between when scored to kill off the Thread.  The worst injuries occur to the wing's edges: leading, tailing and finger sail.
• Remedy:  Cleanse with water, and douse with numbweed for pain.  Let heal uncovered.

• Rarely needed, they are used to replenish ichor by drawing, through a large needlethorn syringe, from a healthy dragon and placed over the injuries of the hurt one.
• Bones and cartilage will soak up the new ichor.

• When learning to chew firestone, weyrling dragons tend to bite the tongue.
• Remedy:  Apply numbweed to the affected area.

• Wing tears can be quite dangerous.  Minor ones will heal in a few days, and major will take a few sevendays.  For help in visualizing the wing and its parts, see the diagram.
• Fragmented Leading Edge: The cartilage of the leading edge is torn, stretched, bent.
• Wrenched Finger Tip:  The forestay tip is broken, or bent back from the joint above.
• Stretched Tendon: Tendons around any one of the bones stretched, misshaping the sails.
• Tattered Mainsail: The wing itself is torn or broken through.
• Remedy: The healer will need a table, bolt of cloth, basket reeds, assistance, jug of oil, pot of thin numbweed, needle box, spool of treated thread, and a washing bowl.
1. Survey the damage from dragonback, then put a table in front of the wing to stand on.
2. When the dragon landed, assistants should have already slathered numbweed on the wounds in order to promote clotting, and to deaden pain.
3. Coat hands with oil three times then dry, then two more to lessen the effect that numbweed will have.
4. Have everyone wash up in redwort.
5. Have someone cut lengths of cloth as long as the leading edge.
6. Have someone thread needles with armslength of thread.
7. Support the wing underneath with cloth, then stitch it to the wingbone and stretch it tight from dorsal (with assistance of course) to the finger joint.
8. Make neat tacks along the dorsal, and use liberal amounts of numbweed so that there is no pain.
9. Fasten to the underside, pull taunt again, and attach the cloth and basket reeds below the wing to substitute for shattered battens and sails.
10. Take numbweed paddle and smear the cloth with salve thin enough so wing tatters can be placed on the cloth for regrowth and formation.
11. Lay on the cloth what wingsail fragments remain.
12. Brace the trailing edge with reeds and gauze.
13. If all goes well, the dragon's wing will mend with overlapping of growth.  The wing will be a bit scarred for a few Turns, but will eventually be worn down to smoothness.  She/he will learn how to compensate for the change in wing's form once in flight.