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MEAD, Richard (1673-1754). A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to be used to prevent it. London: S. Buckley and R. Smith, 1720. FIRST EDITION of an enormously popular book. Asked for advice concerning the plague, Mead 'replied with the above tract ... [it] is almost a prophecy of what was to develop as the English public health system', G&M 5123; Wellcome II, p.95; Heirs 769. [Bound with:] The Devil and the Doctor ... An Anthypochrondriac Satyr for suppressing the Turgent Bile of the Quacks. London: J. Bettenham, 1719. (Rather browned). A reissue of the 1717 edition with a new title. Foxon M80. And 7 other tracts in the volume. 8°. Contemporary panelled calf, gilt spine (spine very rubbed). Provenance: John Clevland (1706-1763), naval administrator and politician (book-label).
With 3 other volumes including William Cockburn's The Nature and Cures of Fluxes (London, 1724) and B. Dominiceti's Medical Anecdotes of the Last Thirty Years (London, 1781). (4)
With 3 other volumes including William Cockburn's The Nature and Cures of Fluxes (London, 1724) and B. Dominiceti's Medical Anecdotes of the Last Thirty Years (London, 1781). (4)
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