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.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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