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The medical works of Richard Mead

Archive Print Item: Health Sciences Historical Collection SC.3

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Type of record: Book

Title: The medical works of Richard Mead

Level: Item

Classmark: Health Sciences Historical Collection SC.3

Creator(s): Mead, Richard (1673-1754)

Publisher: printed for C. Hitch and L Hawes... [et al.]

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1762

Language: English

Size and medium: xxiv, 662, [48] p., [6] leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/169922

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010472429705181

Description

Contents: Mechanical account of poisons. -- Of the influence of the sun and the moon upon human bodies. -- Discourses on the plague. -- Discourse on the small-pox and measles. -- Rhazes's treatise on the small pox and measles. -- Methods for extracting the foul air out of ships. -- Medical precepts and cautions. -- Medica sacra.

Additional description

Pagination slightly irregular (p.383-399). MSS. notes on front end-papers

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