Lac Vaccinum Defloratum

The Green Lizard is usually considered to be non-poisonous; but Baldelli,

who ate a lizard cut into small pieces, developed some decided symptoms of indigestion,

vesication under the tongue, and skin eruptions; and a girl, bitten on the sole of the left foot by a

"large green spotted lizard," died of the effects of the bite after twenty-one days of suffering.

This is recorded in Allen's Appendix, and comes from an American source, so it is probably an

American variety of Lacerta that is accountable for this. Swelling, pain, numbness, delirium,

with an alternating state of greatly increased mental acumen, left-sided paralysis, neck and jaw of

left side rigid and muscles tender. In the Schema the symptoms due to the bite of the American

lizard are marked (A). The symptoms of the proving were > by drinking frequently vinegar and

water. Motion = excruciating, pains in bitten limb. Touch <.

Occasional delirium.—Wonderfully increased mental acumen during intervals of

reason (A).

Great lassitude and disinclination to exertion.—Great restlessness and extreme

and protracted suffering from loss of sleep at night——Feels completely tired out and exhausted,

whether she does anything or not; great fatigue from walking.—Great loss of strength,

commencing with a sharp cutting pain in apex of heart; forehead feels heavy, with a dull

sensation over eyes and throbbing, principally in temples, rest of head feels light.

Despondent. Pain begins in forehead to occiput, in morning on rising. Intense throbbing, with nausea, vomiting, blindness, and obstinate constipation; worse, noise, light, motion, during menses, with great prostration, and better by pressure and bandaging head tightly.

Vertigo: on moving head from pillow; < lying down and esp. turning while lying,

obliging to sit up.—Intense vertigo when opening eyes while lying, < when rising up; objects

appeared to move swiftly from I. to r., at other times moving as if tossed up from below in every

direction—Head feels heavy with marked tendency to fall to r—Faintness and nausea when

stepping upon floor in morning.—Pain first in forehead, then extending to occiput, very intense,

distracting and unbearable; great photophobia, even to light of candle; deathly sickness all over,

with nausea and vomiting, < by movement or sitting up; very chilly, and external heat does not

>; frequent and profuse urination of very pale urine.—After injury subject to distress in head;

severe pain in forehead 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 forehead as if head would burst, with blindness; pain is > by

bandaging head tightly; < by light and noise; constipation, stools large; hands and, feet cold

(hemicrania).—Headache: < during menses; < by speaking, alternating with

tonsillitis—Throbbing frontal headache (over eyes), nausea, vomiting and obstinate constipation;

esp. in anzemic women.—Headache: with pains in eyes; as if full of little stones; < closing eyes;

profuse urination.—Dim vision, as of cloud before eyes; profuse urination; full feeling in head;

slight nausea at pit of stomach; face pale; feet cold; coldness in back.—Intense pain at point of

exit of supraorbital nerve, diffused thence over forehead; attack commences with chill,

quickened pulse, flushed face and discharges of wind from stomach.—Severe headache, with a

sensation as if top of head was lifted off, raised about five inches and brains were coming out;

head feels hot, motion < pain; face felt as if flesh was off bones and their edges were separated

and sticking out.—Pain first in forehead, extending through occiput, making her nearly

frantic_—In morning nausea and sensation of a round ball full of pain in centre of

• ▸forehead.
• ▸—Head feels large as if growing externally.
• ▸—Head heavy, falling to r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—General

sore pain of head produced by coughing.

Dim vision; can only see lights, not objects; preceding headache.—Great photophobia,

even candle light unbearable.—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 —On 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 |.
• ▸eye and

in temple, extending into eyes, and causing profuse lachrymation.

Entire loss of appetite —Great thirst for large quantities and often; intense

thirst.—Could not drink milk without its causing sick-headache.

Violent eructations and some distress in stomach.—Nausea and a feeling of

weight and pressure in stomach.

Constipation. Stools hard, large, with great straining; painful, lacerating anus.

(Constipation.).—Is generally constipated, and when it is most persistent,

very chilly; cannot get warm.—Constipation: with chronic headache; most powerful purgatives

were of no avail; feeces dry and hard, passed with great straining, lacerating anus, extorting cries

and passing considerable blood; chronic.—Continual persistent constipation, > only by cathartics

and enemas, with violent attacks of sick-headache, pain unbearable; great photophobia; deathly

sickness all over, with nausea and vomiting < by movement or sitting up; chilly, not > by

external heat.

Frequent and profuse urination of very pale urine.—Frequent but scanty

• ▸urination.
• ▸—Profuse, pale urine.
• ▸—Albuminuria.
• ▸—Constant pain in region of kidneys, passing

around each side above hips to region of bladder, also downward from sacral region to gluteal,

and from thence down back of thighs; pain burning, not > in any position, < lying down.—Urine

dark and thick.—Urine very pale; cannot retain it—Urine comes away drop by drop, or else

gushes out with a sensation of very hot water passing over the parts; wetting bed at night.

Asthma so that he could scarcely breathe, accompanied by bloating in

epigastric region.—Short, dry cough, with difficult expectoration of a small lump of mucus,

which > cough.

Soreness of chest with great pressure.—Tuberculous deposit in apices of both lungs.

Pressure around heart (not like grasping of Cactus), with dyspnoea and a

feeling of certainty that he is going to die in twenty-four hours.—Sharp pain in apex of heart, as if

a knife were cutting up and down; this preceded a heaviness of head, dulness over eyes,

throbbing in temples and palpitation of heart —Palpitation of heart and flushes of heat, esp. in 1.

side of face and neck.

A symmetrical patch of herpetic eruption on each side of neck, itching and

burning after scratching.—Hard, pressive pain at fourth cervical vertebra; chills creeping along

back between scapulz.—Intense burning pain in small of back and sacrum, commencing in

region of kidneys, passing around on both sides above hips into groins, also downward from

renal region through gluteal region, down back part of thighs; pain, burning, and > by no

position; lying down.

Numbness and loss of sensation over outer and anterior surfaces of

thighs.—Pains passing down under side of thighs to heels, and pains across top of feet as if bones

were broken across instep; pains would come on as soon as she stepped upon floor in morning,

upon which she would be faint and nauseated and would have to lie down.—Weakness and

aching in ankles, puffiness.—Skin thickened at edges of feet.

Sleepy all day long.—Great restlessness, extreme and protracted suffering from loss

of sleep at night.

Hot fever 9 p.m., continues until near morning, wakes in profuse sweat, which stains

linen yellow, difficult to wash out.—Hectic fever; malignant typhoid.—Sensation as if the sheets

were damp.

Lacerta.

• ▸Lacerta agilis.
• ▸Green Lizard (also Large Green Spotted Lizard of U.
• ▸S.
• ▸).
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Lacertilia.

Tincture of whole animal. (A separate preparation of the spotted lizard should be made.)

• ▸Compare: Colostrum (Diarrhoea in infants.
• ▸Whole body smells sour.
• ▸Colic).
• ▸Nat mur.

Sixth, to thirtieth potency and higher.

The female sexual organs furnish a mass of symptoms. Severe

pain in the region of the right ovary, ameliorated by the flow of bright

red blood, is again somcwlnat like Lacli. These pains take alternate

sides. Zinc, also has pain in the ovaries ameliorated by the flow ; she

never feels well except when menstruating ; hysterical at all other times

but well at the menstrual period, is Zinc, Membranous dysmenorrhoea

is another example of the exudative tendency of Lac c. Sore throat

beginning and ending with the menstrual period. Mag, carb, has

sore throat before the menstrual period and Calc, c, has cured painful

throat when menstruating.

Escape of gas from the vagina. The fermentation of mucus and

other substances in the bladder causing the escape of gas when urinating is found only under Sars', ; the urine flows with a loud noise.

It is not uncommon for a child to break wind when urinating, and the

urine is passed with a gnrgling noise ; this is cured by Sars,

Much trouble with the mammal ; they feel as if they would suppurate. When a mother has lost her infant and it is necessary to

• ▸dry up the milk.
• ▸Lac c.
• ▸and Pulit.
• ▸arc the best remedies for this

purpose, when no symptoms are present. They will do it speedily.

The Lac c. patient is imaginative and sensitive to pain and her

surroundings, hyperarsthesia and touchiness. Puls, will be called

for in the Puls, constitution.

Rlicumatism with swelling of the lower extremities, especially when

it affects the limbs alternately ; aggravated by motion and heat, ante-

Horated by cold. Pains in the limbs as if beaten. Rheumatic swelings

of joints.

The untrained mind naturally rebels at the idea of giving skimmed

milk to sick people as a remedy, but when potentized like any other

substance it becomes one of the most useful remedies. Every physician

has seen a few cases in his practice ; men, women and children who

cannot drink milk. They say they are made sick by drinking or using

milk, and that milk is poison to them.

It is the work of the true physician to study cases and ascertain

in each case what symptoms arc observed after taking milk. These

symptoms constitute a proving of it and it is the best kind of a

proving as it is produced upon sensitive persons.

The writer has made it his duty to study each and every one of these

cases until the image of the sickness produced by milk has dawned upon

him both from the individual symptoms and from a collective view.

Much can be learned by meditating upon the milk constitution ;

some may think there is a difference of importance between milk

skimmed and new milk, but for all practical purposes the skimmed

milk is sufficient and cures the oversensitiveness to milk, if used in a

high potency. It is useless in low potency.

It is a useful remedy as it may demonstrate to the unbeliever the

wonderful power of the high potency. It has aggravation during the

whole twenty-four hours ; some cases manifest symptoms only during

the daytime, and amelioration comes with the going down of the sun —

but this is uncommon.

The chronic milk subject is very cold and bloodless and cannot get

warm even in a warm room and by warm clothing ; she is so chilly and

so sensitive to cold that she feels the air blowing on her in the room,

as if she were fanned, even wliere there is no possible draft and others

feel the room to be very warm. She is very sensitive to wet weather.

She is subject to neuralgic and rheumatic pains all over the body but

more especially in the head. The pain in the head is better from cold

applications, but the pains elsewhere are better from heat. The sufferings are all worse by motion and better by rest ; pains are better

by pressure. The bones are sore to touch. Great lassitude and even

weakness, can endure no exertion. There is marked restlessness and

she is unable to hold up after loss of sleep ; extreme weariness from

a short walk. She looks and acts as though she had been suffering

long or as if she were going into a decline. The skin all over the body

is violently sensitive to cold objects and touch of cold sponge. There

is marked periodicity in the nature of the remedy, most noticed in the

recurrent headaches. This remedy has had a reputation for curing diabetes and this is not to be wondered at when it is known to have cured

the weakness, anaemia and copious, watery urine and great thirst ; also

copious, dense urine. Many invalids cured by this remedy have appeared to the WTiter much like the typical diabetic patient ; but it can

cure only where the peculiar symptoms agree. It will not cure simply

when the common symptoms are present. Let all observers faithfully

and minutely study all patients who have an aversion to milk ; all who

have diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, sick headaches, eructations, foul

stomach after drinking milk and in time the general idea of the milk

sickness will be known.

It is a most useful and frequently needed remedy for infants and

children who cannot take milk, not always as their specific remedy,

but as one of the remedies that will help many infants to grow up ;

some grow morbidly fat and others become lean when fed on milk.

It has been useful in dropsy from weak heart ; from liver complaints

and from suppressed malaria. People who drink milk habitually

become anaemic and catarrhal ; fatty degeneration of muscles, of heart

and liver. Malassimilation is the most marked feature of milk poison.

The pains become violent in many parts ; in the spinal cord ; in eyeballs ; in supra-orbital nerves ; in forehead and through the head ; in

the stomach ; in lower part of the abdomen. Many people arc made

sick by milk who use cream with safely and delight. Lac defloratum

is often the remedy for such patients and after a careful examination

their symptoms appear like the proving of skimmed milk.

Loss of memory, listlessness and aversion to mental work ; sadness,

desires death and meditates upon the easiest method of self-destruction ; sadness with weeping and palpitation ; aversion to seeing and

talking to people ; weakness and vacillating mind. He is sure he is

going to die. She imagines that all her friends will die and that she

must go to a convent ; a horror when in a small closet lest the door will

be closed and she will suffocate. She becomes faint and dizzy when

raising her hands high to thread her needle ; vertigo on turning in bed ;

on moving the head from the pillow ; on opening the eyes when lying ;

in the act of lying down. Faintness and nausea when stepping upon

the floor in the morning. Vertigo when reaching up with the hands ;

tendency to fall to the right when standing or walking.

In sickly, pale, careworn women, when the headache is over the eyes

and through the frontal region and the pain is violent ; is better from

pressure and tight binding up, is better lying down in a dark room ; is

better from cold applications ; is better from perfect rest ; is worse

from least motion, worse from light, noise, and conversation ; when

the headache comes on from drinking milk and is attended with

copious, pale urine ; with nausea and vomiting of food, mucus and bile.

Violent pain in occiput, vertex and sides of the head ; marked pulsation in the head with all headaches ; during the headaches the face

is pale and cold. There is also marked congestion with heat of the

head and flushed face ; the headache often comes with marked periodicity though sometimes not with regularity. Weekly headaches are

the most common. Great soreness all over the head on jarring or

coughing ; sensation as if top of head was lifted off ; pain first in the

forehead extending to occiput, making her nearly frantic. Intense

headache in forehead and through head, worse in vertex — afterwards

head felt bruised. With all the"* frontal headaches there is strong pulsation in temples. It has cured many violent, periodical, sick-headaches, that have been present since childhood and said to be inherited.

During these violent headaches there is sometimes a sensation as though

the head were expanding ; it has cured headaches that come before and

after menses. Morning sickness during pregnancy.

59^ lac vaccinvm defloratum

Dim vision before the headaches ; can only see light, not objects ;

sensation as if eyes were full of stones ; extreme photophobia ; dull

pain in eyes, worse in left, even while lids are closed ; better by cold

applications, better by closing eyes, in a dark room ; drawing pain in

eyes when reading — could only read a few minutes at a time ; great

pain in eyes on first going into the light ; pain in and above eyes, worse

by heat and motion. Lids feel heavy, sleepy and dry. Pain most

marked over left eye with lachrymation.

Painful pressure or tightness at the root of the nose.

Deathly paleness of the face ; wasted, thin and excessively sallow,

with dark stains beneath the eyes. Sallow complexion with eczema.

Flushes of heat in left side of face ; sensation as if flesh was off the

bones of the face, and edges were separated and slicking out.

Grinding teeth during sleep, with pain in stomach and head, with

vomiting.

Taste insipid, sour ; mouth dry ; breath offensive ; mouth clammy

and frothy, especially during conversation.

Globus hystericus ; sore throat, worse when swallowing. The

mucous membrane of the throat is very pale.

Entire loss of appetite ; great thirst for large quantities of water ;

eructations empty or sour; distension from gas; nausea after drinking

cold water in the evening — worse after lying down ; nausea from a

recumbent position or from motion or on rising in the morning ; deathly

nausea, but cannot vomit, with groans and cries of great distress ;

great restlessness and sensation of coldness although the skin was hot

and pulse normal. Vomiting, first of undigested food intensely acid,

then of bitter water and, lastly, of a brownish clot which in water

separated and looked like coffee grounds. Incessant vomiting which

has no relation to her meals ; vomiting of bile, with headaches ; violent

pain in stomach. It is a very useful remedy for vomiting in pregnancy

in women who loath milk. Cramping in the stomach.

Chronic gastro-enteritis with chronic diarrhoea and vomiting ; tenderness of abdomen ; flatulence and distension. Heaviness and feeling

of stone in abdomen. Severe pain across the umbilicus, with headache.

Chronic constipation where rectum seems paralyzed and injections

and cathartics have failed ; the stool is large, hard and difficult ; after

prolonged straining the stool recedes. It has cured after Silica failed.

Constipation in very chilly patients ; constipation with periodical headaches and vomiting ; frequent but ineffectual urging to stool ; diarrhoea

from drinking milk.

Frequent scanty urination ; profuse, pale, watery urine with headache ; urine very dark and thick ; albuminous urine. It cured involuntary urinations when walking in cold air, or when riding on horseback

Pulse rose eight beats; subsequently fell fourteen beats.

24. Generalities—Numbness; prickling; swelling spreads up from bitten foot, with most

excruciating pain on slightest motion; muscles of neck and jaw of 1. (bitten) side stiff and tender

to touch, while 1. side paralysed. The limbs were spotted a short time before death on the twenty-

first day (A).—AlIl the symptoms disappeared on the subsequent night after a profuse sweat.