Offer cures for gout, dropsy and scrofula

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From: Start a Chemist's Business


One of the Palace nursery-maids asks if you can do anything for some rather more unpleasant diseases. The Librarian at the University will let you look at some medical texts, if you can help satiate his appetite for scandal.

Game Instructions: You can obtain Intriguing Snippets by using other Influence items in your inventory.

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Challenge information

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  • 51 - very chancy (41%)
  • 63 - chancy (51%)
  • 76 - modest (61%)
  • 88 - very modest (71%)
  • 100 - low-risk (81%)
  • 113 - straightforward (91%)
  • 124 - straightforward (100%)

Success

An astounding scientific advance!

You pored over the ancient medical texts […]. […] you find information about […] mushrooms. Your first patient is a […] gout-riddled colonel. You apply some of your liniment […] and watch […] as the swelling lessens visibly! You see tears in the eyes of the colonel's wife […]

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Failure

That was rather unpleasant.

[…] you consulted old texts and herbals until you had convinced yourself that you could use fungus from London's marshes to come up with a panacea […]. […] It is going to be a long time before anyone forgets that colonel's leg just dropping off like that.

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