It has been recognized as a remedy by but few of our writers on nervous diseases. O'Connor finds that marked benefit follows its use in old cases of myelitis with marked spastic symptoms. Bartlett, in _Goodno's Practice_, recommends it in excessive knee-jerk and rigidity. Hart speaks of it as a remedy in locomotor ataxia, but the absence of sensory symptoms and the presence of exaggerated reflexes would seem to contra-indicate it in this disease. He also speaks of it in spinal anemia, giving as symptoms: "Numbness, followed by pain in the lower extremities; sensation of a band around the body; unable to step or distinguish one limb from another"--symptoms which I am unable to find that the remedy produced. Elliott also speaks of it. CLINICAL RÉSUMÉ. The clinical record of _Lathyrus_, though very meagre, gives great hope that it may prove useful in numerous cases of bed-ridden paraplegiacs and in infantile spinal paralysis, as well as in certain forms of myelitis. The following is a résumé of all that I can find published: I. Case of spinal paraplegia, relieved. II. A case of multiple sclerosis in a young man of twenty-eight who had been ill seven years and unable to walk for six years was greatly benefited by _Lathyrus_ [Latin: ezh]x. III. Case of paraplegia, could walk after taking the remedy for some time. IV. Case of paraplegia, no improvement. V. Rheumatic paralysis, with stiff knees, could walk after use of _Lathyrus_. (Clark _Homoeopathic World_.) VI. In a case of a clerk with loss of power of the lower limbs, reflexes exaggerated, knee-jerk violent, locomotion difficult and unsteady, probably a case of transverse myelitis, _Lathyrus_ [Latin: ezh]x, night and morning, gave most satisfactory results. The patient could walk a mile without assistance. (Simpson, _Homoeopathic Review_.) VII. In a man aged fifty-two who had been unable to walk for six years, the paraplegia coming on after a "stroke" from exposure to wet, _Lathyrus_ [Latin: ezh]x practically cured in eight months. He had been tied to a chair for six, and at the time he stopped treatment he was walking four miles daily. (Blake, _Homoeopathic Review_.) From the fact that the _Lathyrus_ disease occurs frequently in certain mountainous regions of Asia it has been remarked that it is akin to Beri-Beri, which has been traced to eating the _Lathyrus_ bread. LIATRIS SPICATA. NAT. ORD., Compositæ. COMMON NAMES, Dense Button-Snake-root. Gay Feather. Devil's Bit. PREPARATION.--The root is pounded to a pulp and macerated in two parts by weight of alcohol. (The following, by Dr. T. C. Duncan, was called forth by the publication of an item in _Eclectic Medical Journal_, stating that twice during the past year _Liatris_ had given good results in dropsy; in one case, on the second day, the patient had passed a gallon and a half of urine. Dr. Duncan's paper was published in the _Homoeopathic Recorder_ for 1898):