"Magic is a viable cure." It'd be quicker than this, but he wants none of it and thus gets the salve. Nevermind the question, she begins to apply it in a thick layer over the burned skin, frowning at the damage. Chemical burn? "From an alchemists trap or acid? It'd be a different salve. This does not look to be that, however."

The skin tends to blacken differently with chemicals, warp with acid. No, this is a simpler sort of pain. More familiar and thus, a quicker fix. "Are you going to be like this for every physician that tends to you, or am I a special case because I am a mage?"