edy for some skin diseases.

ignatia
Dried ripe seeds of the Saint-Ignatius's-bean used like nux vomica.

impetigo
Contagious bacterial skin infection, usually of children, indicated by
the eruption of superficial pustules with thick yellow crusts, commonly
on the face.

incommode
Cause inconvenience; disturb.

inspissate
Undergo thickening or cause to thicken, as by boiling or evaporation;
condense.

intercostal
Relating to or near a rib.

iodoform
Yellowish crystalline compound, CHI3, used as an antiseptic.

ipecac
Tropical American shrub (Cephaelis ipecacuanha) that yields emetine.
Medicinal preparation made from this shrub used to induce vomiting.

Iris Florentina (Florentine iris, orris, Iris germanica
florentina, Iris florentina)
German iris having large white flowers and a fragrant rhizome.

Irish moss (carrageen)
Edible North Atlantic seaweed (Chondrus crispus) that yields a
mucilaginous substance used medicinally and in preparing jellies.

iritis
Inflammation of the iris of the eye.

jalap
Eastern Mexican vine (Ipomoea purga) with tuberous roots that are dried,
powdered, and used as a cathartic.

jocose
Given to joking; merry; humorous.

kamala
Asian tree (Mallotus philippinensis) that bears a hairy capsular fruit;
vermifugal powder is obtained from the capsules of this tree.

kino
Reddish resin from several Old World trees of the genera Eucalyptus,
Pterocarpus, and Butea and from tropical American trees of the genera
Coccoloba and Dipteryx.

kumiss (koumiss)
Fermented milk of a mare or camel, used as a beverage in western and
central Asia.

La Grippe
Influenza.

lancinating
Sensation of cutting, piercing, or stabbing.

lard
White solid or semisolid rendered fat of a hog.

laudanum
Tincture of opium, formerly used as a drug.

leukemia (leucemia, leukaemia, leucaemia)
Disease in humans and other warm-blooded animals involving the
blood-forming organs; causes an abnormal increase in the number of white
blood cells in the tissues with or without a corresponding increase in
the circulating blood.

lime (calcium oxide)
White, caustic, lumpy powder, CaO, used as a refractory, as a flux, in
manufacturing steel and paper, in glassmaking, in waste treatment, in
insecticides, and as an industrial alkali.

Slaked lime is calcium hydroxide, a soft white powder, Ca(OH)2, used in
making mortar, cements,