This is the study of Magic as an art and a concept. Considered its own field of science, it covers a wide range of topics, including the nature of Aer and its use, the application of Magic, Magitechnology, and the ethics and philosophy regarding magic.
Magical Medicine is considered a sub-discipline of Fundamentals, and examines how magic can be used to heal wounds and treat illnesses.
In recent years, medical researchers have come to the consensus that magical healing does not alone alter or repair the body, so much as it stimulates the immune system and the body's natural healing process. To many, this explains why it's easy to heal a small cut, while all magic can do for a viral infection or chronic condition is hold off symptoms for a time.
The Exaotic Window—named for the Divine Exaos—refers to a medical theory centering around the limitations of healing magic. After a time, magic becomes unable to affect the body, but doctors aren't in agreement on what determines when the window closes. A popular example used when debating the window are occasions where, in the heat of the moment, something like a broken bone by be healed incorrectly and have to be broken again by a medical professional to be properly set. The Traumatic Exaotic Window proposes that the bone being broken again dampens the impact magic would have on it, while the Temporal Exaotic Window proposes that, since the initial break, the amount of time that's passed would make magic less effective.
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