Part 1

Transcriber’s notes:

Several features of this book are unusual: it has two slightly different lists of contents which do not correspond precisely with the text, and there is a preface midway through the book; it has confusing page numbering (omitted from this transcription) which restarts in successive sections of the text using mixed arabic and roman numerals; the text displays an unusual mixture of italics, small capitals, full capitals, and variable letter spacing (some of which do not display correctly on handheld reading devices); much of the spelling is archaic, and both spelling and punctuation are inconsistent. Some obvious typesetting errors have been corrected but the spelling and punctuation otherwise remains true to the original text. Illustrations are only decorative, not informative.

In this transcription paired underscores denote italicised text and a ^ (caret) indicates superscripted text.

Footnotes have been positioned below the relevant paragraphs.

COLLECTION

Chirurgical Tracts.

I. Of WOUNDS of the HEAD and BRAIN.

II. NEW DISCOVERIES relating to the CURE of CANCERS.

III. CHIRURGICAL REMARKS on several curious CASES.

IV. The HISTORY and ANTIQUITY of the VENEREAL DISEASE.

V. A NEW METHOD of curing CONSUMPTIONS by Specific Medicines.

Written and Collected

By WILLIAM BECKETT,

Surgeon and F. R. S.

LONDON:

Printed for E. CURLL, in Rose Street, Covent-Garden. And Sold by C. RIVINGTON in St Paul’s Church-Yard, Mess. BIRT, WARE, LONGMAN, HITCH, WOOD and Company, in Amen Corner, Paternoster-Row, J. CLARK, in Duck-Lane, and J. HODGES, on London-Bridge. 1740.

(Price Four Shillings.)

THE

CONTENTS.

I. Some Account of Mr BECKETT’s Life and Writings. Addressed to Sir HANS SLOANE.

II. Chirurgical Remarks on Wounds of the Head and Brain.

III. New Discoveries relating to the Cure of Cancers.

IV. The Case of Dr Keil by Mr Rushworth of Northampton.

V. Three curious Dissections by John Ranby, Esq; Surgeon to his Majesty’s Household.

VI. A New Method of curing Consumptions by Specific Medicines, by Thomas Nevett, Surgeon.

VII. The Natural Secret History of both Sexes. By Luke Ogle, Esq;

VIII. Laws and Regulations of the Stews in England.

IX. The History and Antiquity of the Venereal Disease in Three Letters to Dr Douglass, Dr Wagstaffe and Dr Halley.