Early Hezten Medicine

Quarantines and local treatment

Hezten medicine in the early 6th age was an organised affair. Anything larger than a cold was seen to by a disciple of the Light, decked out in body covering robes, cloth gloves, and large ornate masks, shaped in gruesly grimaces to help with the purification of the body. The sick were kept to the house while others who lived alongside the sick were moved to neighboring buildings. The Disciple would then sit with the sick and tend to them in open aired prayer. This included ritual bathing in hot sand, with the sand being disposed of after the bathing.

Blood Ghosts

In early Hezten society disease was seen as a haunting of the blood. As the Light cleanses, even as it burns, it was seen as a way of pushing the ghosts from the blood, and indeed most medicine stemmed from that initial believe in the haunting that disease brung.