Greyscale

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Greyscale is a disease that can leave flesh stiff and dead and the skin cracked and flaking, mottled black and grey and stone-like to the touch. The tongue and lips turn to stone.[1] It generally affects children especially in cold damp climes. The victims are disfigured but could not be touched by the rarer mortal form of the affliction or the grey plague. The wildlings consider people who survive Greyscale unclean.

Treatment

The maesters say it progress could be stayed by limes, mustard poultices, and scalding-hot baths. Septons insist that prayer, sacrifice and fasting stay it. It is also colloquially believed that severing the afflicted organs may stop the disease from spreading, but this treatment is not always effective.

Persons with Greyscale

References and Notes