Skimmed Milk
(LAC DEFLORATUM)
A remedy for diseases with faulty nutrition; sick headaches, with profuse flow of urine during pain. Car sickness.
Head.–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.
Stool.–Constipation. Stools hard, large, with great straining; painful, lacerating anus.
Relationship.–Compare: Colostrum (Diarrhœa in infants. Whole body smells sour. Colic). Nat mur.
Dose.–Sixth, to thirtieth potency and higher.
William Boericke, M.D., was born in Austria, in 1849. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1880 and was later co-owner of the renowned homeopathic pharmaceutical firm of Boericke & Tafel, in Philadelphia. Dr. Boericke was one of the incorporators of the Hahnemann College of San Francisco, and served as professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. He was a member of the California State Homeopathic Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He was also the founder of the California Homeopath, which he established in 1882. Dr. Boericke was one of the board of trustees of Hahnemann Hospital College. He authored the well known Pocket Manual of Materia Medica.