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 ([see list]) but the spelling and punctuation otherwise remains true to the original text.

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A title has been added to the original blank cover.

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,