Blight excision

Blight excision is a treatment that can be applied to victims of the Blight in order to slow down the progress of the disease. The treatment involves the removal of blight tumors from the patient's skin. This prevents the formation of blight crystals, thus slowing down the patient's crystallization process.
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Basis of treatment

The middle stages of the Blight are characterized by the development of blight tumors on the patient's skin and even within their body. These pustules can grow to unwieldy sizes and eventually mature inside them mineral shards known as blight crystals. Crystals embed themselves deep into the patient's tissues -- skin, muscle, bone, organs and all -- thus causing terrible pain and impeding bodily functions. Death by the Blight can occur by a variety of causes but is guaranteed to occur in the final stages of the disease as the patient's body is consumed, or "replaced", by blight crystals. It follows that to prevent the formation of these crystals is to postpone the patient's complete crystallization.

Mode of action

The idea of blight excision is simple: blight tumors are excised from the patient before they can develop into blight crystals. This is not a new medical concept, of course, tumors of all kinds are surgically removed from patients by medical practitioners across the world.
Blight tumors are exceptionally difficult to operate on due to great degrees of inflammation around them and the strong pain this causes in the patient. Blight tumors also accumulate vast amounts of foul liquid inside them and are highly resistant to piercing, making bursting them open a challening prospect indeed.

Availability
Inituitively vailable due to its medical simplicity.
Utility
Blight excision can prolong a blighted person's life by a matter of days.
Complexity
Using methods of surgery, cauterization and sterilization, correct application of the treatment requires a high degree of proficiency as well as proper materials. The idea behind the treatment is not complicated however, so blight tumors can be -- and are -- excised with crude methods and crude results. If scalpels and medical-grade spirits are not available, a butcher's knife and a cattle prod have to suffice.

Benefit

With blight excision the development of blight tumors can be disrupted and the patient's lifespan extended. Unfortunately, blight tumors appear and develod extremely fast, and to treat all of them would require constant monitoring and more than one daily operation per patient. Such resources are rarely available.
To make matters worse, blight tumors can appear inside a patient's body just as likely as on their skin. Such tumors are hard to detect before it is too late, not to mention the difficulty of operating them and the amount of time required for a patient to recover from such an operation. In practice, internal tumors are simply not treated due to the generally terrible healthy of blighted patients.