PREPARATION.--The whole plant without the root, gathered when in flower, is macerated in two times its weight of alcohol. (A treatise on the "Sexual Passion," by the late Dr. Gallavardin, Lyons, France, contains this item on _Origanum_): The person who discovered a remedy that in a certain sense may be considered as a specific against sexual passion was a clergyman of Mizza, the founder of an orphan asylum. This remedy is _Origanum majorana_ (or common marjoram), which proves effective in masturbation and in excessively-aroused sexual impulses. The author uses it in the 4th dilution, as he has not found the higher potencies effective. He dissolves five or six globules of this dilution in four teaspoonfuls of fresh water, and the young masturbator takes of this every two days, a quarter of an hour before the meal, one teaspoonful. If the cure is not accomplished eight days after this solution is used up, the same dose is repeated in the same way. When desired, this remedy can be used, according to the author, without the knowledge of the patient, by pouring a teaspoonful into the soup, milk or chocolate. The effect frequently appears very rapidly, but sometimes it does not appear. OXYTROPIS LAMBERTI. NAT. ORD., Leguminosæ. COMMON NAMES, "Loco" Weed. Rattle Weed. PREPARATION.--The whole plant without the root is macerated in two times its weight of alcohol. (The following proving of the "loco weed" was conducted by the late Dr. W. S. Gee, of Chicago, in 1887): OXYTROPIS LAMBERTI, Pursh.--_Commonly taller, as well as larger_, than other varieties (the scapes often a foot or more high); silky,--and mostly silvery-pubescent, sometimes glabrate in age; leaflets from oblong-lanceolate to linear (4 to 16 inches long); _spike, sometimes short-oblong and densely flowered_, at least when young; _often elongated and sparsely flowered_; _flowers mostly large_ (often an inch long, but sometimes much smaller), variously colored; pod, either narrowly or broadly oblong, _sericeous pubescent_, _firm-coriaceous_, half-inch or more long, _imperfectly two-celled_. Includes _O. Campestris_ of Hook, Fl. Bor. Am., in part. Common along the Great Plains from Saskatchewan and Minnesota to New Mexico, Texas, etc., and in the foot-hills.--From Coulter's _Manual of the Botany of the Rocky Mountain Region_. It is one of the poisonous members of that family. It is found in California and New Mexico.