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Richard Mead was born on August 11, 1673, at Stepney, London, the eleventh of thirteen children of Matthew Mead, an Independent minister, and Elizabeth Walton.
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Richard Mead was born on August 11, 1673, at Stepney, London, the eleventh of thirteen children of Matthew Mead, an Independent minister, and Elizabeth Walton.
Mead studied at Utrecht for three years under JG Graevius, having decided to follow the medical profession, he then went to Leiden and attended the lectures of Paul Hermann and Archibald Pitcairne. In 1695 he graduated in philosophy and physic at Padua, and in 1696 he returned to London, entering at once on a successful practice.
In 1703-1715 he was a staff member of St. Thomas’ Hospital and Medical School, London, he also attended some of the foremost personalities of the day, including King George I, Queen Anne, King George II, the British prime minister Sir Robert Walpole, Sir Isaac Newton, and the poet Alexander Pope.
He wrote on the prevention and treatment of plague, smallpox, measles, and scurvy; his Mechanical Account of Poisons (1702) includes original observations on the action of snake venom.
Richard Mead died on February 16, 1754, and was buried in Temple Church.
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Quotations:
"Those things, which are experienced to be in their whole nature, or in their most remarkable properties, so contrary to animal life, as in a small quantity to prove destructive to it, are called Poisons: whether they are hurtful by being taken inwardly at the mouth, or communicated to the body externally by a wound. "
"Venomous animals, when they bite or sting, inflict a wound, and instil into it a drop or more of liquor, which infects the fluid of the nerves, and by this means inflames the membranes: hereupon a swelling arises, sometimes to a degree of mortification, which spreads to the neighbouring parts. "
In 1699, Richard Mead married Ruth Marsh, and had ten children, several of whom died young. After the death of his wife in 1719, he married Ann Alston, they did not have children.