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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.

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.

Doctors and artists / Michael Webber.

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

The gold-headed cane.

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].

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.

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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.

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.