Richard Mead
British physician (1673-1754) · Doctors · Died at 80
Richard Mead, FRS, FRCP was an English physician. His work, A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it (1720), was of historic importance in advancing the understanding of transmissible diseases.
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Lived 1673 to 1754 · aged 80
