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

  • Maty, Matthew, 1718-1776.
Date:
1755
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Credit: Authentic memoirs of the life of Richard Mead, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that happened fome years before. Dr. Mead, in the courfe of his practice, having had frequent opportunities to experience the efficacy of pur¬ gatives to prevent, or at leaf! to leflen the fecondary fever, which fo often, proves fatal in the confluent fmall- pox, communicated his difcovery ■ to feveral of his Brethren, who had * the greatefl; fhare of his confidence, and in particular to Ratcliffe and Freind % the latter adopted it, and, in his Commentary on the fir ft and third Books of Hippocrates’s Epide¬ mics, which he publifhed in 1717, he inferted the letter which Mead had written to him feven years be¬ fore on that fubjedt. Thefe two Gentlemen being now confidered as aflociated in the fame caufe, a party was immediately formed, both a- gainft