(From the Transactions of the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Maine Homoeopathic Medical Society we take the following from a paper by Dr. A. I. Harvey on _Passiflora_:) It does no good where the inability to sleep is due to pain or distress of any kind; but in cases where we find that the nervous erethism is not controlled by the action of _Coffea_, _Opium_, _Sulphur_, or other apparently indicated remedy. _Passiflora_ is in its place as a succedaneum for _Morphia_ or other sedatives. The dose varies from ten drops to one dram of the tincture, according to the age of the patient. I do not hesitate, in the case of an adult, to give dram doses of the tincture every hour until the patient sleeps, and have seen it act in the happiest manner in restoring the rhythm of the heart's action, when that organ has been deranged in its movements by the combined effects of exhaustion and loss of sleep. _Passiflora_ has also given me much aid in a case of morphine habit of six years' standing, which I cured wholly and entirely by the use of this remedy. It is recommended in the above mentioned doses for delirium tremens, trismus, tetanus and kindred diseases of the nervous system, repeated every hour or half-hour until relief is obtained. The remedy leaves no after effects, is incapable of creating an appetite, and, so far as my observation extends, it is perfectly harmless even in large doses, often repeated. (Dr. Scudder claimed that the one great indication for _Passiflora_ in all cases is _a clean tongue_; when the tongue is foul the remedy will do no good.) PENTHORUM SEDOIDES. NAT. ORD., Crassulaceæ. COMMON NAME, Ditch Stone Crop. PREPARATION.--The whole fresh plant with the root is macerated in two parts by weight of alcohol. (The _Medical Advance_ for June, 1887, contains a paper by Dr. D. B. Morrow, from which the following is taken.) The object of this paper is to call attention to the fact that the only proving of _Penthorum_ was made on scientific principles, as these verifications demonstrate. If the pathogenesy is carefully studied, it will be seen to meet all the conditions of "common colds," or acute catarrhs, so prevalent in all sections of North America, from the symptoms of chill, malaise, headache, soreness, cough, coryza, dry and flowing, with their secondary consequences of disturbed digestion, constipation, debility, etc. and it will probably cure any or all of these conditions when indicated by correspondence to the pathogenesy. A medicine having such a catarrhal range is probably a remedy for female troubles equal to _Pulsatilla_ or _Calcarea_, and is worthy of a careful proving by women. It cures where antipsoric medicines have failed, and possibly may possess antipsoric qualities.