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About healing skills:
All of us should have some degree of healing skills. Households in such a village as we've come from did most of their own doctoring - so, and I hate to be sexist here, but the girls should have picked up some skills from mothers or aunts or grannies or any female relatives. There should be 'cures' handed down through the generations for fevers, and cuts, poultices, etc.
And any of us who are animal workers - Dorran with his horses and Brand with his sheep flock will have some medical skill. Much of what can be done for an animal can be done for a human, too.
About Brand's wounds - water boiled with a little salt and then allowed to cool to clean them; willowbark tea for pain; and a nice salve of comfrey, marigold, and beeswax (which you might find in Brand's pack - he's brought some remedies along he's used on his flocks - in a small wooden box).
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world – J.R.R. Tolkien
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