The great and deserved Practice which attended Mr _Beckett_’s _New Method of curing Cancers_, obliged him to postpone the Publication of his _Chirurgical Collections_, as above recited; and which, upon a mature Deliberation, he changed into a much more extensive and useful Design; and, by Mr _Innys_ at the West-End of St _Paul_’s, and Mr _Hooke_ in _Fleet-street_, Booksellers, He published _Proposals for printing by Subscription in 2 Volumes_ 4to, An Account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings, _both Manuscript and Printed_, of the most eminent _British_ Authors in _Physic_, _Surgery_, _Anatomy_, _Pharmacy_, _Botany_ and _Chemistry_, from the Conquest to the Year 1721. To which was to be added, A large Collection of Records, principally taken from the _Tower_, containing Grants of particular Favours and Privileges to the most noted _Physicians_ and _Surgeons_ by the Kings of this Realm for many hundred Years; whereby, besides other curious Affairs not to be met with elsewhere, the Time in which they lived was to be ascertained, as to several of them, has hitherto remained absolutely undetermined. The whole faithfully collected and reduced to the most exact Order of Time. This Work was proposed at the Price of one Guinea in Sheets. Between the Years 1717 and 1720, Mr _Beckett_ published in the _Philosophical Transactions_, Three Letters concerning the _History of the Antiquity of the Venereal Disease_. I. To Dr _Douglass_. II. To Dr _Wagstaffe_. III. To Dr _Halley_. Proving _That Disease_ to have been _known_ and _cured_ in _England_ long before the Discovery of the _West-Indies_. Of these Pieces Dr _Astruc_, a _French_ Physician, full of the Vanity peculiar to his Countrymen, seems doubtful as to their Proof, because he had never seen the Manuscripts, nor rare printed Authorities, cited by Mr _Beckett_; and treating of Dr _Turner_’s _Syphilis_, speaks slightly of that Gentleman, because he is of the same Opinion with Mr _Beckett_. From the Publication of a small Pamphlet consisting but of 24 Pages, 8vo, Intituled, “A _Letter_ from a Gentleman at _Rome_, to his Friend in _London_, giving an Account of some very surprizing _Cures_ in the _King’s-Evil_ by the _Touch_, (of the Chevalier _De St George_) lately effected in the Neighbourhood of that City, 1721. Wherein is contained the compleatest History of this _miraculous Power_, formerly practiced by the _Kings_ of _England_, ever yet made public; the _Certainty_ of _which_ is confirmed by the most eminent Writers of this Nation, both _Catholics_ and _Protestants_, as, _Malmsbury_, _Alured_, _Brompton_, _Polydore Virgil_, _Harpsfield_, &c. and Drs _Tooker_, _Heylin_, Mr _Collier_, Mr _Echard_, &c. _Translated_ out of the _Italian_.” And the following Motto prefixed by the Catholic Translator, _viz._