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MEAD, RICHARD (16731754) , English physician, eleventh child of Matthew
Mead (163o-1699), Independent divine, was born on the Ilth of August 1673 at Stepney, London. He studied at Utrecht for three years under J. G. Graevius; having decided to follow the medical profession, he then went to Leiden and attended the lectures of Paul Hermann and Archibald Pitcairne
paper on the parasitic nature of scabies. In the same year he was elected physician to St Thomas
Hospital
Hall
Mead became the recognized head of his profession; he attended Queen Anne on her deathbed, and in 1727 was appointed physician to George II., having previously served him in that capacity when he was prince of Wales. He died in London on the 16th of February 1754.Besides the Mechanical Account of Poisons (2nd ed., 1708), Mead published a treatise De imperio solis
Matthew
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