LESS, | Timehri. 
Ko-Re-Ko.—The inner bark is scraped and the juice put in the eyes fox 
inflammation. Carib. 
Kata-Mor-Ex. Accawoi Kortre. Accowai KouraBatui, Kt-a-REENA. 
Kara, Korazsora, KaAutaBatul.—aAll separate cure for sores. Arrawak. 
Also Krarrema. Arrawak. 
Keara-Pepo.—A decoction for fever. Accawoi. 
KerosIneE Orn.—I have seen a case where a child suffering badly from inter- 
nal pains crept to a bottle, drank about a teaspoon of the oil, was given a dose 
of castor oil and was completely cured. Used for snake bites. 
Komara, Kom-Wy-Ox, Kom-Wy. Arrawak.—For fever. 
Ko-Pra.—As a bath for measles. Carib. 
Kome. Accawoi. Karaqur, Kram-Br-Urr. Accowai.—Baths for head- 
aches. 
KARABALLALLI.—An emetic. Carib. 
KrraBanit.—As a dressing for Buck sick, Arrawak. 
Kosr-Ex.—A decoction for toothache. Arrawak. 
Kurvk1.—For bellyache. Arr. 
Lime.—For a cold just coming on squeeze a yellow lime on some sugar and 
sip. For a disorder of the bowele just coming on or just on, squeeze a yellow 
lime on a tablespoon of salt in a wineglass, stir well and take as a schnapp, then 
dose of castor oil if necessary. For fevers rub the skin with the lime all over 
either alone or better still with brown stout vinegar. This was the great thing 
in yellow fever, 
In the olden days and «ven now the sports take a yellow lime to bean feasts 
and they take a sip of the lime every time they take a drink and never get the 
worse of liquor. 
Lemon Grass.—(Andropogon schananthus). There is no creole garden 
without its lemon-grass bush. Boiled as a tea with a little spirits or some 
sweet spirits of nitre ; if the patient does not sweat then it is a bad case indeed 
and requires a warm bath. 
Lity.—(Eucharis). The bulbs a violent emetic. The leaves are good for 
headaches when tied over the forehead. 
LaureL.—(Oreodaphne opifera). Trees of the laurel type are numerous in 
the colony and important for their stomachic qualities. The oil is used exter- 
nally for pains in the joints as a discutient and internally as a diuretic and dia- 
phoretic and it is an admirable solvent of India rubber (Schomburgk). 
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