Ice

(is). Water in its solid state, to which it is reduced by a temperature of o° centigrade, or 320 Fahrenheit. I. -bag, a bag of waterproof material filled with ice, for application to any part of the body. I. -cap, a bladder or rubber cap filled with unded ice for applicadon to the head in case of conation. I-cot,. a bed cooled by ice, so as to reduce the mperature of the patient. I. -cradle, a device that nsists in the suspension over a febrile patient in d, by means of iron frames or barrel-hoops, of a umber of zinc buckets kept half-filled with ice and closed in a light covering. The patient is covered th a muslin sheet and provision is made for the circution of pure air in the cradle. The temperature of e patient is to be taken at least even.- four hours, and it falls to 1000 the apparatus is to be removed. If a nse of chilline appears hot bottles are to be applied the feet. I. -poultice, or I. -compre , an applicaion of broken ice used for local refrigeration, land (is'-land), n island of the Arctic Ocean. I. Mo . See Cetraria . I. Spar, a transparent calcium carbonate, crystallized in rhomboidal prisms. It has the property of dividing and doubly refracting a ray of light. or (i'-kor). An acrid and "n puri form discharge from an ulcer or wound, oroid, or Ichorous (i'-kor-oid, if-kor-us). Resembling or relating to pus containing serum and disintegrated ti ue. orrhea. A copious flow of ichor.