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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 7980552" data-attributes="member: 28487">Virologist are not "scientists of disease" they are scientist of viral diseases. That is, diseases caused by an infection of a virus. There are diseases that are caused by bacteria and diseases like diabetes or heart diseases that are not caused by microbiological agents. As to, whether, medical professionals, who are not proficient in magic, are able to treat a magical disease depends on the underlying nature of magic or at least the disease. If the disease has a predictable course and symptoms then doctors could treat the symptoms and keep the patient alive until the disease runs its course. So, basically, if magic follows patterns and rules and one can learn about it nature by application of the scientific method then magical diseases can be treated and overcome by scientific methods. If on the otherhand, ,magic is somewhat arbitrary in nature and has not discernible rules  then the scientific method is of little help.At the end of the day, as DM do you want the scientific method to work in you D&D campaign. This also relates to can anyone do magic or only special people.</blockquote>