The medical works of Richard Mead / [Richard Mead].

  • Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.
Date:
1762
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The medical works of Richard Mead / [Richard Mead]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    14/754
    “ and made eafy ? Nor is there any one living, of C( whofe approbation I fhould be more delirous, or “ under whofe authority this difcourfe, if it has the “ good fortune not to difpleafe you, will be more fafe “ from the cavils of fome perverfe people e.” Dr. Keill aifo addreffed his Anfwer to the foregoing Diflertation to Dr. Mead: u For, fays he to him, as my adverfary “ has befought you to be his patron, fo I defire to “ leave this controverfy to your determination, who a are a fit and learned judge of it. And for your “ part, great Sir, who hold the firft rank in phyfick, “ be pleafed fo to moderate by your prudence the dif- u putations of thofe who differ in opinion, that they <c may not be contemptible to the unlearned, but pro- <£ fitable to the learned f.” Thefe papers were written at firft in Latin, printed in the Philofophical Tranf- aftions, and dated, the former January, the latter June, 1719: from which it appears, that Dr. Mead was applied to by the ableft men, as a fit moderator and judge in the moft difficult queftions, altho’ he was not much beyond that period of life, when the' generality of his profeffion begin to emerge. It is remarkable, that party-principles never influ¬ enced this great man’s attachments: and tho? he was himfelf a very hearty whig, yet he was upon terms of the ftri&eft intimacy with Garth, Arbuthnot, and Freind. And when the laft, upon a fufpicion of be¬ ing concerned againft the government with biffiop Atterbury, Keill’s Eflays on feveral Parts of the Animal CEcononvy, p. 54, Jmnd, 1738. r Ibid. p. 79, 84.