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MEAD, RICHARD. A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods used to be used to prevent it... Eighth Edition, with large
MEAD, RICHARD. A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods used to be used to prevent it... Eighth Edition, with large Additions. [8], xxxvi, 150 pages. Large 8vo, contemporary tan calf handsomely gilt, joints cracked, cords intact; institutional stamps on title. Wrest Park armorial bookplate of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey. London: Sam. Buckley, 1722
- Notes: "The present treatise is one of the most important works in the history of public health because of its impact on theory of contagion"--Heirs of Hippocrates 769 (third edition). Garrison-Morton 5123 (1720 original edition). With inscription "From the Author" on front blank, and leaf of contemporary manuscript notes bound at end ("a Copy of the Opinion of Doctor Mead and Doctor Lee, concerning the Goods on board the Ship Duke of Lorrain from Messina").
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