_Chill._--Chill at 11:40 A.M., beginning in back between shoulders, down over body to feet; stomach feels cold; pains all over body during chill; a peculiar sensation of crawling or contraction of the abdominal muscles, hardest about the navel, lasted about half an hour,^2. As the chill passes off a smarting in the throat and a feeling as though the lungs and bronchi would close up, making breathing very difficult; chill lasted until 1 P.M., followed by perspiration of palms of the hands and soles of the feet; the changeable pains remained until 3 P.M., when all disappeared,^2. No thirst in either stage,^2. Felt badly for three days at same hour as chill,^2. For four weeks on every seventh day had a chill with all the above symptoms; the coldness of the spine was continuous for eight weeks, and was then removed by _Gelsemium_,^2. (Dr. W. D. Gentry, while at Las Vegas, New Mexico, made the following summary of the action of the remedy. _Homoeopathic Recorder_, 1895): For the present I will only give a few of the leading symptoms produced by the _Loco weed_: Brain and Mind: Stimulation of mind; pleasant intoxicated feeling. Satisfied indifference to all influences and interests. Head: Full, warm feeling about the head. Eyes: Strange feeling of fullness about the eyes, with sight obscured, so that it appears that one is looking through clear water which produces about all of the seven prismatic colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and violet. Paralysis of nerves, and muscles of the eyes, producing amblyopia. Pupils contracted and do not respond to light. Eyesight lost with feeling as if in consequence of long exposure to strong, arc-electric lights. Neck and Back: Numb, pithy or woody feeling about and in the spine. Lower Extremities: Loss of power to control movements of body or limbs. Swaying, staggering gait. Reflex action of tendon-patella lost. General: Weakness and insecurity of all powers of locomotion. Feeling of intoxication, with almost entire loss of vision. Amblyopia: sense of touch greatly weakened. (From the _Kansas City Star_.) The loco weed of the Western plains is to vegetation what the rattlesnake is to animal life. The name comes from the Spanish and signifies insanity. It is a dusky green and grows in small bunches or handfuls and scatters itself in a sparse and meagre way about the country. It is in short a vegetable nomad and travels about not a little. Localities where it this season flourishes in abundance may not see any of it next year, nor indeed for a number of years to come.