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.

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

Richard Mead. Etching by A. Pond, 1739.

Richard Mead. Stipple engraving by J. Pass, 1816, after A. Ramsay.

Richard Mead. Etching by J. Richardson, 1739.

Richard Mead. Line engraving by Barrett, 1795, after A. Ramsay.

Richard Mead. Stipple engraving by H. Cook, 1847, after A. Ramsay.

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

Medicina flagellata: or, the doctor scarify'd. Laying open the vices of the Faculty, the insignificancy of a great part of their materia medica; with certain rules to discern the true physician from the emperick, and the useful medicine from the noxious and trading physick. With an essay on health, or the power of a regimen. To which is added, a discovery of some remarkable errors in the late writings on the plague / by Dr. Mead, Quincey, Bradley, etc. With some useful and necessary rules to be observed in the time of that contagious distemper.

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

Richard Mead. Line engraving.

The gold-headed cane.

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 46 x 36 cm

Don Ricardo Honeywater vindicated . In a letter to Doctor Salguod, Physician in Ordinary to His Royal Highness the Prince of Asturia's Houshold, and Man-Midwife: the reputed author of a scurrilous pamphlet, entitled, The cornutor of seventy-five. Wherein The Malice, Ignorance and Self-Sufficiency of that Author are fully Display'd, in several Diverting Particulars of his Life and Character. Written Originally in Spanish, and Published at Madrid by the Celebrated Author of Gil Blas. Faithfully Translated from an Original Copy in the Cotton Library. By A. M. a graduate in physic.

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.

The medical works of Richard Mead / [Richard Mead].

A short discourse concerning pestilential contagion, and the methods to be used to prevent it / [Richard Mead].

An oval cartouche containing a dedication to Dr Richard Mead. Engraving by G. Vandergucht, 17--.

8 unnumbered leaves, 175 pages, folded plate ; (8vo)

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

xiv pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, xvi, 533 pages, 1 leaf, 8 folded plates ; (8vo)

Opera, ad editiones Anglicas nuperrimas typis mandata ... / Anglica interpretatus est A.C. Lorry ... Cum figuris aenais.

Authentic memoirs of the life of Richard Mead, M.D.

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Richard Mead

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Images by Richard Mead

Images featuring Richard Mead

Works from the collections

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

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

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

Opera, ad editiones Anglicas nuperrimas typis mandata ... / Anglica interpretatus est A.C. Lorry ... Cum figuris aenais.

Authentic memoirs of the life of Richard Mead, M.D.

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.

Frequent collaborators

Richard Mead

Images from the collections

Images by Richard Mead

Images featuring Richard Mead

Works from the collections

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

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

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

Opera, ad editiones Anglicas nuperrimas typis mandata ... / Anglica interpretatus est A.C. Lorry ... Cum figuris aenais.

Authentic memoirs of the life of Richard Mead, M.D.

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.

Frequent collaborators

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