  AN ACCOUNT OF THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM BECKETT , Surgeon, and F. R. S. VIZ, Chirurgical Remarks ON A Wound of the Head RECEIVED NEW DISCOVERIES CONCERNING CANCERS. THE CASE OF Dr JAMES KEIL , Represented by JOHN RUSHWORTH . A NEW M E T H O D Of Curing CONSUMPTIONS BY Specific Medicines. INTRODUCTION. THE NATURAL SECRET HISTORY OF BOTH SEXES : OR, A Modest Defense OF PUBLIC STEWS . 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 (see list) but the spelling and punctuation otherwise remains true to the original text. In this transcription a black dotted underline marks a hyperlink to a section of text or to a footnote (links are also highlighted when the mouse pointer hovers over them). A title has been added to the original blank cover. A COLLECTION OF Chirurgical Tracts.
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
To the Honourable Sir, IT is with the greatest Satisfaction that I now lay before you the Performance of those Commands, with which you were pleased to honour me, of collecting the Chirurgical Pieces which were singly published by Mr Beckett in his Life time. This Gentleman might be said to have been begotten in his Profession, as being the Son of Mr Isaac Beckett, Surgeon of Abington in Berkshire, where he was born in the Year 1684. He received his Education under Mr Pledwell, then Master of the excellent Free Grammar-School belonging to that Town, served four Years of his Apprenticeship with his Father, and the three last with Mr Joseph Bateman, of St Thomas’s Hospital in Southwark. Mr Beckett died, Sir, at his Sister’s House in Abington, November the 25th 1738, in the 54th Year of his Age, and lies interred in St Hellen’s Church there. Of this his Native Place, he drew up a Brief Account of it’s History and Antiquities.1 A faithful Account of his Writings is prefixed to this Volume; your Generous Patronage of which, he would himself have looked upon as the greatest Honour and Friendship that could be conferred on his Labours, and for which, I most humbly request your Acceptance of the Grateful Acknowledgments of, Sir, |
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