(The following concerning this little used drug was reported by Dr. Bonino, an Italian physician, translated by Dr. Mossa and published in the _Allgemeine Hom. Zeitung_, July, 1898. The use of the drug by Dr. Bonino was truly homoeopathic for the short proving of it. Allen's _Encyclopædia_ reports trembling of the limbs and hand so great that "he could not hold a glass of water.") A carpenter, aged twenty-nine years, had been suffering ever since his eighteenth year of trembling in both hands, especially in the morning; of late also his legs began to tremble. It is remarkable that both his father and his brother were subject to the same ailment, while no definite cause could be indicated. He was first given _Mercurius vivus_, then _Agaricus_, which brought a partial but only transitory improvement. Finally I prescribed _Lolium tem._, which in a short time effected a cure. (On this Dr. Mossa comments as follows): The pathogenetic effects of this remedy which has not yet been proved at all are only known to some degree from its effects when it has been mixed with grain and baked into bread. It has caused chest troubles, _vertigo_ (thence the name darnel-grass, in German _Taumellolch_), _trembling_, paralysis with anguish and distress, vomiting, failing of the memory, blindness, headache, epileptic attacks, deep sleep and insanity. The good success obtained by its use in the case given above shows what curative effects may be expected from it in severe affections of the brain or spinal marrow. An Italian physician, Fantoni, has tried it in cephalalgia, meningitis rheumatica and in ischias. LYCOPUS VIRGINICUS. NAT. ORD., Labiatæ. COMMON NAME, Bugle Weed. PREPARATION.--Tincture of the whole plant by macerating one part by weight of the fresh plant in two parts by weight of alcohol. (Although a well-known remedy, the following concerning it may not be amiss here; it is from the _Homoeopathic World_, 1889, by Dr. Proell):