Remove Disease

The remove disease spell is most often used by charlatans without true healing abilities. It merely removes a patient's symptoms, an effect that the practitioner tries to pass off as a full cure. Sometimes this leads to an incidental cure, if the patient's symptoms only prevented rest or eating well, but more often the patient's condition secretly worsens.

All effects dealing with the affected person's physical appearance and perception of pain or discomfort vanish, but losses of hit points and ability scores continue, as do system shock checks and saving throws. Because the subject can feel no symptoms, he usually takes no further steps to deal with the illness and eventually dies from a disease he might otherwise have survived (for example, a pneumonia sufferer with symptoms removed might go out into the cold and damp to do a day's work, and suffering double pneumonia without realizing it).

The material component is a fertile egg from an avian or reptile.