MEDICAL WORKS O F RICHARD MEAD, M. D. Physician to his late Majesty K. GEORGE II, Fellow of the ROYAL COLLEGES of PHYSICIANS With an Account of the LIFE and WRITINGS IN THREE VOLUMES. EDINBURGH. Printed by A. DONALDSON and J. REID. MDCCLXV. MEDICAL WORKS O F Dr RICHARD MEAD, VOLUME I CONTAINING A MECHANICAL ACCOUNT of POISONS; A DROPHOBIA, EDINBURG H. Printed by A. DONALDSON and J. REID. MDCCLX V. MEMOIRS of the LIFE and WRITINGS of the AUTHOR. R RICHARD MEAD. was defcended from a con DR fiderable family in Buckinghamshire, and born at Stepney, a fmall village near London, in Auguft 1673. His father, Mr Matthew Mead, was a celebrated divine among the nonconformifts, and had been one of the two minifters of that parifh; but was ejected in 1662. He had a very numerous family; yet, having a handfome fortune, he educated his children liberally, and kept a private tutor in his house for that purpose. Party-rage running high at the end of Charles II.'s reign, Mr. Mead became obnoxious, and was forced to withdraw himself. He went into Holland, after having placed his fon Richard at a school, under Mr Singleton, an able mafter of his own principles. Here he made a great progrefs in every thing which belonged to the belles lettres; and, in the year 1689, was fent to Utrecht, to complete thofe ftudies under the illuftrious Grævius, to whom he was recommended by his eldest brother, who had also been his pupil. After three years refidence at Utrecht, he went to Leyden; and being determined to dedicate himself to the study of phyfic, he attended Herman's botanical courfes, and the famous Pitcairn's lectures on the theory and practice of phyfic. Pitcairn was very referved out of college; nevertheless, our young ftudent infinuated himself fo far into the good graces of this profeffor, that he drew from him feveral obfervations, |