Of all mineral waters those of Levico are distinguished, not only by their contents of these three elements, arsenic, iron and copper, but they are remarkable for the state of combination in which they occur. Situated in South Tyrol, on the confines of Italy, Levico has for many years been a favorite sanitorium of the Italian medical profession for their nervous and skin patients. Of late years Levico water has also been increasingly recognized by the German and Austrian faculty, among whom Bamberger, Billroth, Hebra, Nussbaum, and others testify to the extraordinary remedial activity of the waters, favoring assimilation, increasing nutrition, and in chronic and dyscratic skin diseases functioning as antiseptic or astringent. Merely as an internal medication _Levico_ water has, however, proved so satisfactory that it is a recognized member of the pharmacopoeia in many German and Austrian hospitals and clinics. Thus Professor Nussbaum, of Munich, writes that '_Levico_ water is given in my orthopædic institute in doses of two or three ounces to scrofulous and anæmic children. The water is well tolerated, and in spite of the smallness of the dose the result is, in many cases, very evident.' Professor Eulenberg, of Berlin, finds _Levico_ water especially satisfactory in chorea minor in children and at the age of puberty, as well as for hysterical neuralgia and spasms. A very copious testimony of like nature has been borne respecting _Levico_ water. LATHYRUS SATIVUS. NAT. ORD., Leguminosæ. COMMON NAMES, Wild Vetch. Chick pea. PREPARATION.--Trituration of the dried pea. (Dr. W. A. Dewey contributed the following paper concerning this remedy to the _Medical Century_, 1899): HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF EFFECTS, The _Lathyrus_ is a vetch, and a member of the leguminosæ family growing in India. This remedy, which produces a perfect picture of certain spinal affections, has been known for over a century. In _Christison's Toxicology_ it is stated that it causes paraplegia, dragging gait, turning-in of the toes, stiffness and semi-flexion of the knee-joints. The attention of the homoeopathic profession was directed to the drug as a possible remedy in paraplegia, in the _British Journal of Homoeopathy_, Vol. III. Here is found an account of a wheat famine in India, where the peas of the plant were substituted for wheat and used as a food. Those who subsisted on it were taken, even during sleep, with sudden paralysis of the lower limbs; this occurred without warning, in young men more than in young women, and was never recovered from. Another observer records fifty cases who had eaten the _Lathyrus_ bread and all stated that they became paralytic during the wet season of the country, that they went to bed quite well and awoke with stiff legs, unsteady gait, and aching, but no severe pain. The upper extremities were free.