THE

MEDICAL

WORK S

O F

RICHARD MEAD, M. D.

PHYSICIAN to his late Majefty King GEORGE II.
FELLOW of the ROYAL COLLEGES of PHYSICIANS
at LONDON and EDINBURGH, and of
the ROYAL SOCIETY.

LONDON:

Printed for C. HITCH and L. HAWES, A. MILLAR, J. WHISTON and
B. WHITE, J. BUCKLAND, J. RIVINGTON, R. BALDWIN,
W. JOHNSTON, J. RICHARDSON, S. CROWDER,
B. LAW, and J. ROBSON.

M.DCC.LXII.

MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE and WRITINGS

OF THE

AUTHOR.

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R. Richard Mead was defcended from a confiderable family in Buckinghamshire, and born

at Stepney, a small village near London, in August 1673. His father, Mr. Matthew Mead, was a celebrated divine among the nonconformists, and had been one of the two ministers of that parish; but was ejected in 1662. He had a very numerous family; yet having a handfome fortune, he educated his children liberally, and kept a private tutor in his house for that purpose.

Party rage running high at the end of Charles II.'s reign, Mr. Mead became obnoxious, and was forced to withdraw himself. He went into Holland, after having placed his fon Richard at a school, under Mr. Singleton, an able master of his own principles. Here he made a great progrefs in every thing, which belonged to the Belles Lettres; and, in the year 1689, was sent to Utrecht,

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