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The First Folio

Leaf-Bare. Appearance of Symptoms.

First signs of Whitecough contracted in five cats. Ages vary; two elders, a kit, and two warriors of intermittent moons.

Treatment administered chickweed to all infected parties. The kit moved to cleared section of den for overnight monitoring. Snowheart insists upon overseeing the observation.

Leaf-Bare. Day 2 of the First Symptoms.

Hypothesis: the female elder (gray and white with a tattered left ear) and the kit (tortoiseshell) will succumb to worsened symptoms owing to weakened immune systems, and underweight bodies.

Kit kept overnight for observation, exhibiting a chest-cough with sounds of mucus in the airways and sinuses. Treated with chickweed. May advance to Greencough, prepared to quarantine further should this occur.

Leaf-Bare. Day 7 of the First Symptoms.

Female elder expires at moonhigh. Several hours later, kit expires in first light of dawn. Both advanced stages of illness, with symptoms no longer befitting the initial diagnosis of Whitecough. Both had been quarantined in a secondary den on the outskirts of the campsite.

Since Day 2, four more have shown signs of Whitecough, with two of the original five showing advanced stages.

It is no longer a random viral string, but confirmed as a full outbreak. Advisement given Redstar to consider a tertiary den within the Clan territory to isolate the predicted greater numbers of infected from those uninfected.

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The Second Folio

New-Leaf. Isolated case of negligence.

Patient comes to den complaining of stomach cramps; gums are pale and flecked with foam, stomach so tight as to cause hunching. Age is 7 moons. Male. Patient claims to have eaten an indeterminable (presumed small) dosage of a 'stupid looking plant' growing in the Flooded Grasses. Patient is unable to eat due to pain. Patient unable to describe herb in detail beyond 'it's green'.

Hypothesis: owing to the healing properties of catmint, chickweed and coltsfoot (plants that are ingested as a means to heal the afflicted), they have been ruled out as cause for patient's stomach pains. Horsetail, dock, water hemlock are the remaining; strong evidence points to water hemlock.

Poppy seeds are supplied for the pain. No further immediate action is taken, awaiting advancement of symptoms.

Sunhigh. patient shows signs of more foam along the gums and tongue. Complains of stomach cramps worsening. Snowheart suggests the contents of the apprentice's stomach are emptied, in the event that water hemlock was ingested. Mouse bile is liberally applied to patient's nose, causing instant emesis. Water hemlock is found within the stomach bile.

Patient is kept overnight, provided with moss soaked in water. Snowheart insists on keeping vigil.

Shortly after dawn, patient recovers enough to eat. Gums are back to normal. No longer hunching, stomach pain appears to have dissolved.

Patient expected to make a full recovery.