Richard Mead, FRS, [https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/fellowship FRCP], (11 August 1673 – 16 February 1754) was an English physician. His work, ''A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it'' (1720), was of historic importance in the understanding of transmissible diseases.
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