Antique 1816 engraving of Richard Mead. Richard Mead, FRS, FRCP, (1673-1754) 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 the understanding of transmissible diseases. SOURCE: ORIGINAL ENGRAVING

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