Publications of William Beckett

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  • Beckett, William. New discoveries relating to the cure of cancers. ... In a letter to a friend. To which is added, A solution of some curious problems, ... By William Beckett, surgeon. London: printed for George Strahan, 1711. ESTC No. T89436. Grub Street ID 309334.
  • Beckett, William. New discoveries relating to the cure of cancers. Wherein The Painful Methods of Cutting them off, and Consuming them by Causticks are Rejected, and that of Dissolving the Cancerous Substance is recommended, with various Instances of the Author's Success in such Practice, of Persons reputed Incurable; in a letter to a friend to which is added, A solution of some curious problems, concerning the same Disease. By William Beckett surgeon. London: printed for George Strahan, at the Golden-Ball, over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1712. ESTC No. T89440. Grub Street ID 309338.
  • Beckett, William. 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, Physician to his Majesty, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society; the other to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. President of the College of Physicians, and Vice-President of the Royal Society. Now first published, in order to a compleat Confutation of that supposed supernatural Power, lately justified in a Pamphlet, intituled, A Letter from a Gentleman at Rome, to his Friend in London, &c.. To which is added, a collection of records. By William Beckett, Surgeon, and F. R. S. London: printed, and sold by J. Peele, at Locke's-Head in Pater-Noster Row, [1722]. ESTC No. T94500. Grub Street ID 314090.
  • Beckett, William. 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. 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, Messrs. Birt, Ware, Longman, Hitch, Wood and Company, in Amen Corner, Pater-Noster-Row, J. Clark and J. Hodges, on London-Bridge, [1740]. ESTC No. T114928. Grub Street ID 166704.
  • Beckett, William. 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. By William Beckett, Surgeon, F. R. S. London: printed for E. Curll, in Rose-Street, Covent-Garden; and sold by C. Corbett, publisher, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street; C. Rivington, in St. Paul's-Church-Yard; Messieurs Birt, Ware, Longman, Hitch, Wood, and Comp. in Ave-Mary-Lane and Pater-Noster-Row; G. Strahan, in Cornhill; and J. Clarke, under the Royal-Exchange, MDCCXL. [1740]. ESTC No. T114223. Grub Street ID 166049.