The principal remedies mentioned in the _Onania_ consist of nostrums, which the author reserved to himself. It may be observed on it, in general, and the observation is important, that he employed no _evacuants_, and that only corroboratives constituted the basis of them, under the names of _The strengthening tincture_, and _The prolific powder_. They act, without that action’s producing any sensible effect, but, as the author says, they inrich, strengthen, and nourish the parts of generation in both sexes. According then to him, they give them new vigor; they favor the generation of seed, and powerfully restore oppressed nature: in a word, like all nostrums, they do every thing that is required of them. There is a third secret remedy mentioned, under the name of _The restorative draught_, which operates very efficaciously, and, in fact, if any faith may be given to the testimonies adduced in favor of these remedies, they have doubtless great virtue. Besides these three nostrums, he gives some formularies: One is a draught, composed of amber, aromatics, and of some other remedies of that class: A second is a liniment, composed of essential oils, of balsams, of acrid tinctures. Both, these compositions appear to me too stimulative, and as they have not any experience in their favor, I omit the particularising them. He specifies two others, which seem more proper. DECOCTION. ℞. _Flor. siccat. lamii_[98] _mpl._ vi. _Rad. cyper. et galangal. ana unc._ ii. _Rad. bist. unc._ i. _Rad. osmund. reg. unc._ ii. _Flor. ros. rub. mpl._ iv. _Icthiocoll unc._ iii. _Scissa tus mixt. cum aquæ quart._ viii. _ad quartæ partis evaporat. coquantur_. Take a quart of this every day. INJECTION. ℞. _Sacchari Saturn. Vitriol, alb. Alum. rup. ana drachm._ i. _Aq. chalyb. fabr._ ℔ i ß. _per dies decem igne arenæ digerantur. Add. Spir. vin. camphorat. cochl._ iii. Before I go on to the next Section, I think myself bound to mention, that very sensible views, applicable to the disease of which I am treating, may be found in a book lately published, intitled, _Precis de Medecine pratique_, a work of M. LIEUTAUD, physician to the young royal family of France, who, after having got to himself a distinguished name among the Anatomists and Physiologists, has moreover secured to himself one of the first ranks among the practitioners, by his excellent treatise on intermittent and remittent fevers.