The medical works of Richard Mead
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Type of record: Book
Title: The medical works of Richard Mead
Classmark: Health Sciences Historical Collection SC.2
Creator(s): Mead, Richard (1673-1754)
Additional creator(s): Stack, Thomas (Other); Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā (865?-925?) (Other); Sutton, Samuel (fl. 18th cent) (Other); Watson, Sir William (1715-1787) (Other); Bonomo, Giovanni Cosimo (Other)
Related people: Stack, Thomas; Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā; Sutton, Samuel; Watson, William; Bonomo, Giovanni Cosimo
Publisher: A. Donaldson, and C. Elliot
Publication city: Edinburgh
Date(s): 1775
Language: English
Size and medium: xix, 511, [59] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/168714
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010350159705181
Description
Contents: Memoirs of the life and writings of the author.--Mechanical account of poisons.--Of the influence of the sun and moon upon human bodies, and the diseases thereby produced [translated from the Latin by T. Stack]--Discourse on the plague.--Discourse on the smallpox and measles [translated from the Latin by T. Stack]--Rhazes's Treatise on the small-pox and measles [translated by T. Stack]--Method for extracting the foul air out of ships [including letters to and from Mr. Sutton, relative to his invention and observations upon Mr. Sutton's invention by R. Mead and W. Watson]--Discourse on the scurvy.--Medical precepts and cautions [translated from the Latin by T. Stack]--Medica sacra [translated from the Latin by T. Stack]--Oratio anniversaria Harveiana.--Joanni Freind, epistola.--Dr. Bonomo's observations concerning the worms of human bodies.--An account of the hydrophobin.--Authors quoted or referred to in this work (5 p. at end).
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