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. [Illustration] 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_, 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. [Illustration] To the HONOURABLE Sir _Hans Sloane_, Bart. PRESIDENT