William Becket

Surgeon and antiquary

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A collection of 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. [Also pieces by other authors by Thomas Nevett] Written and collected by William Beckett ... / [William Beckett].
William BecketDate: 1740
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New discoveries relating to the cure of cancers. Wherein ... causticks are rejected, and ... dissolving the cancerous substance is recommended ... To which is added, a solution of some curious problems, concerning the same disease / [William Beckett].
William BecketDate: 1712
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Practical surgery illustrated and improved: being chirurgical observations with remarks, upon the most extraordinary cases, cures, and dissections, made at St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark / [William Beckett].
William BecketDate: 1740
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A collection of very valuable and scarce pieces relating to the last plague in the year 1665 ... With a preface shewing ... errors of Dr. Mead, and his misrepresentations of Dr. Hodges and some authors. Added, An account of the plague at Naples in 1656.
Date: 1721
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A free and impartial enquiry into the antiquity and efficacy of touching for the cure of the King's Evil written some time since, in two letters: the one to Dr. Steigertahl ... the other to Sir Hans Sloane ... To which is added, a collection of records / By William Beckett.
William BecketDate: 1722

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William Becket[t]. Line engraving by R. Parr.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 981i