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].

  • Beckett, William, 1684-1738
Date:
1740
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Credit: 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]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thereon. And at the End of this Tract, Mr Beckett gave an Advertifoment that He had alrnoft ready for the Preis, Annota¬ tions and Practical Observations on the Learned and Ingenious Monfieur Gendron’s Enquiries into the Nature, Knowledge and Cure of Cancers. IL In the Tear iju, He published New D iscovERiES relating to the Cure of Can¬ cers. Wherein the painful Methods of cut¬ ting them off] and confuming them by Cauf- tics are rejeBed, and that of diffolving the Cancerous Subfance is recommended > with various Irflances of his Succefs in this Practice on Perfons reputed incurable. Alfa a Solution of Pour curious Problems con¬ cerning Cancers, viz. I. Whether the Cancerous }mcc is cornofive or not. II. Whe¬ ther C&ncQss are contagious or not. III. Whe¬ ther if the extirpating a Cancerous Brea ft happens to be fuccefsfuly it ought to be looked upon as a Confequence of pe?forming the Operation better than our Predecefors. IV. Whether a Salivation will Cure a Can¬ cer. Phis Treatife came to a Second Edition the following Tear 1712 .* To which, bfides feme CorreBions, Mr Beckett added Two other Problems wijth their Solutions viz. Y. Whether Cancers are curable by Cauftics. VI. Whether