The idea of potentizing skimmed milk originated with Swan upon reading Doukin's Skim Milk Treatment for Diabetes and Bright's Disease. The first proving was made by a lady in New York, in whose case the headache with nausea and constipation were strongly marked. A subsequent, more extensive proving was made under Swan by Dr. Laura Morgan. See Swan's Mat. Med. of Nosodes and Morbific Products, arranged by Berridge. With but few exceptions the symptoms in the following arrangement have received clinical verification. Clinical Authorities. — Headache, Farrington, Farrington's Clinical Mat. Med., p. 28; Laura Morgan, Boardman, Org., vol. 2, p. 257 ; Hahn. Mo., vol. 10, p. 220; Periodical sick headache, Morgan, T. H. M. Soc. Pa., 1881, p. 105; Hemi- crania, Hahn. Mo., vol. 10, p. 220; Chronic constipation Schley, Swan, Hahn. Mo., vol. 10, p. 321 ; Knerr, MSS.; Fainting spells, Laura Morgan, Org., vol. 2, p. 256. ' Mind. Loss of memory ; listlessness and disinclination for either bodily or mental exertion. ■ Depression of spirits; don't care to live; question as to quietest and most certain way of hastening one's death. During conversation, headache and depression of spirits >. ■ Depression with crying and palpitation. ^Fainting spells. I Imagines that all her friends will die and that she must go to a convent. ^Fainting spells. I Does not want to see or talk to any one. Can remember what has been read only by a strong effort of will. Vacillation of mind. Great despondency on account of the disease, is sure he is going to die in twenty-four hours. Has no fear of death but is sure he is going to die. ^ Sensorium. iHead light, with throbbing in temples. B Vertigo : on moving head from pillow ; < lying down and especially turning while lying, obliging to sit up. Head feels heavy with marked tendency to fall to r. side. iFaintness and nausea when stepping upon floor in morning. ■ At first a sharp pain at apex of heart, as though a knife was cutting up and down ; this lasts a few seconds and is followed by strange feeling in head ; forehead feels extremely heavy, with dull sensation over eyes, and con- ^^^ LAC DEFLORATUM. siderable throbbing, most marked on each side of head • rest of head feels very light; dimness of vision; can only distmguish light, not objects; at same time great loss of strength; cannot stand, but falls backwards and remains entirely unconscious for two or three minutes • weakness passes off gradually, and is followed by cryina palpitation of heart and great depression of" spirit?' imagines that all her friends will soon die, and that she must go to a convent; she can produce an attack at any time by extending arms high above head, or by press- ure around waist; spells come on at 7.30 p m 6'Faint- tmg spells. ^ Inner Head. iPain first in forehead, then extending to oc- ciput, very intense, distracting and unbearable? great photophobia even to light of candle; deathly sickness all oyer, with nausea and vomiting, < by movement or sitting up ; very chilly, and external heat does not > • trequent and profuse urination of very pale urine! f/Sick headache. I After light breakfast, pain in forehead, with nausea ; very pale face, even lips looked white; vomiting of ino-esta and afterwards of mucus and bitter water; deathly'^sick leelmg in pit of stomach, < rising up in bed; profuse urination every half hour; urine colorless as water- great thirst; intense throbbing pain in vertex. ^Head- ache. ■ After injury subject to distress in head; severe pain in torehead just above eyes; breath offensive; appetite poor, nausea; at times sleeps for hours during attack- great distress across back ; urine dark and thick ■ Nausea, and sometimes vomiting, which > ; pain in fore- head as if head would burst, with blindness; pain is > by bandaging head tightly; < by light and noise; constipation, stools large ; hands and feet cold. ^Hemi- crania. ■ Periodical pain in forehead, as if head would burst, ac- companied by violent efforts to vomit, and more rarely vomiting; hands and feet cold; diarrhoea alternating with constipation, the latter predominating; loss of ap- petite; smell or thought of food causes nausea; tongue moist, coated white ; thirstlessness ; always < at men- strual period; menses scanty and accompanied with colic. /^Headache. ■ Attacks come every eight days ; during attack can neither eat nor drink, nor endure light or noise; does not even like to speak; great prostration, < during menstruation; when pams subside, inflammation of tonsils appears- tongue white and no relish for food, headache LAC DEFLORATUM. 550 llThrobbing frontal headache, nausea, vomiting and ob- stinate constipation; especially in ancemic women. ■Severe frontal headache; nausea and sometimes vomiting upon rising in morning, or from recumbent position at any time, or upon moving; great constipation ; constant chilliness even when near tire; urine profuse and watery, or scanty and high colored ; intense pain throughout whole spinal column ; excessive thirst for large quanti- ties; great depression of spirits; sudden prostration of strength at 5 p.m.; skin color of red rose, with swelling of face, neck, arms and body, generally in morning and during day and evening. fc/Headache. ■ Severe pain over eyes, with intense throbbing in both temples; eyes feel as if full of little stones; eyeballs in- tensely painful, and on shutting eyes, pressure of lids increases pain ; edges of lids feel contracted, and convey sensation as of a narrow band drawn tightly across eye- ball; pain over 1. hip; constipation and profuse urina- tion during paroxysm. ^Headache. ■ Dimness of vision, as of cloud before eyes; profuse urina- tion; full feeling in head; slight nausea at pit of stomach; face pale; feet cold; coldness in back. ■ Pain commencing in and above inner end of r. eyebrow; before rising in morning; soon after rising pain passed into eyeball; < until afternoon, at which time it be- came unbearable; < by walking and particularly by sitting down, though done carefully, also by heat radi- ated from fire or stooping, > on pressure; pressure on temples disclosed strong pulsation of artery ; pain ceased entirely at sunset and did not return till next day. ■ Intense pain at point of exit of supraorbital nerve, dif- fused thence over forehead; attack commences with chill, quickened pulse, flushed face and discharges of wind from stomach. ■ Pains so severe that she would bury her eyes in her hands and press them into pillo'w. ^Sick headache. ■Severe headache for years; severe pain over eyes ; intense throbbing in temples. • General sore pain of head, produced by coughing. ■ Severe headache with a sensation as if top of her head was lifted off and was raised about five inches, and brains were coming out; head feels very hot and motion increases pain; face felt as if flesh w^as off bones and edges were separated and sticking out. ■ Pain first in forehead, extending through occiput, mak- ing her nearly frantic. ■ Intense headache in forehead and through head, < in vertex, afterward head felt bruised. 551 LAC DEFLORATUM. I In morning nausea and sensation of .a round ball full of pain in centre of forehead. I Throbbing in temples. ■ American sick headache, with gastric symptoms. * Outer Head. iHead feels large as if growing externally. Head heavy, falling to r. side. i I General sore pain of head produced by coughing. ^ Sight and Eyes, i Dimness of vision; can only see lights, not objects; preceding headache. ■Sensation as if eyes were full of little stones. ^Headache. BiGreat photophobia, even candlelight unbearable. Intense vertigo when opening eyes while lying, < when raising up; objects appeared to move swiftly from 1. to r., at other times moving as if tossed up from below in every direction. ■ Great pain in eyes on first going into light, soon passed off; on closing eyes on account of light, pain was felt in eyeballs as if from pressure of lids. I Pain in and above eyes. BOn closing eyelids painful pressure as if lids were short laterally, causing sensation of band pressing upon balls. ■ Upper eyelids feel very heavy; sleepy all day. ■ Pain in head, most marked over 1. eye and in temple, extending into eyes, and causing profuse lachrymation. ^ Smell and Nose. ■Painful pressure or tightness at root of nose. ^Catarrh. * Upper Face. Deathly paleness of face. ■ Wasted, thin and excessively sallow, with dark stains beneath eyes. ■ Sallow complexion with eczematous eruption. ■ Flushes of heat in 1. side of face. ■ Face, neck, arms and body generally flush color of a red rose, with swelling, but no itching or burning. ■ Sensation as if all flesh was off bones of face and edges were separated and sticking out. I I Pimples on face and forehead. ^Irregular menses. ^" Teeth and Gums. ■Grinding of teeth when asleep, with pain in stomach and head with vomiting. ^^ Inner Mouth. ' i Mouth very dry. ■ Breath very offensive. ^ ■ Mouth clammy and frothy, especially during conversation. ^^ Throat. ■Globus hystericus; sensation of a large ball rising from a point about lower end of sternum to upper end of cesophagus, causing distressing sense of suffocation. ■ Sore throat < when swallowing; slight, hacking cough. ^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. ■ Entire loss of