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Richard Mead. Line engraving, 1755, after L. F. Roubiliac.

Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, with a whip in one hand and a letter in the other, mounted on an ass with a human head. Etching with engraving, 1745.

Saint Mary Magdalen. Etching by A. Pond, 1734, after Annibale Carracci.

Richard Mead. Reproduction of drawing, 1888, after W. Hogarth.

Richard Mead. Etching by A. Pond, 1739.

Doctors and artists / Michael Webber.

Richard Mead. Line engraving, 1754, after A. Ramsay.

The gold-headed cane.

Saint Thomas's Hospital, Southwark: the courtyard, with portraits of Mark Akenside, Richard Mead and William Cheselden. Oil painting.

A letter from an apothecary in London, to his friend in the country, concerning the present practice of physick : in regard to empiricks, empirical methods of cure, and nostrums. With remarks on Dr. Mead's, Mr. Freke's, and Mr. Cheselden's method of cure for the itch, by externals only ... Also some observations upon manna ... with remarks on Dr. Mead's certain cure for the bite of a mad dog.

Myotomia reformata: or an anatomical treatise on the muscles of the human body ... To which is prefix'd an introduction concerning muscular motion / [William Cowper].

A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead.

Nouvelle méthode pour pomper le mauvais air des vaisseaux, &c / par Samuel Sutton. Avec une dissertation sur le scorbut, par le Docteur Mead, et une suite d'expériences du Docteur Desaguliers, sur les moyens d'échauffer l'air, de le renouveller, &c. Ourvages traduits de l'anglais par M. Lavirotte.

Riverius reformatus: or the modern Riverius; containing the modern practice of physick ... treatise of venereal diseases, and the secrets of ... Lazarus Riverius ... / By a Doctor of Physick. To which is annexed R. Mead's Treatise of the power and influence of the sun and moon on humane bodies.

A certain cure for the bite of a mad dog / R. M.

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Mead, Richard, 1673-1754

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A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead.

A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead.

Riverius reformatus: or the modern Riverius; containing the modern practice of physick ... treatise of venereal diseases, and the secrets of ... Lazarus Riverius ... / By a Doctor of Physick. To which is annexed R. Mead's Treatise of the power and influence of the sun and moon on humane bodies.

A certain cure for the bite of a mad dog / R. M.