Authority Cited: Mead
Author name and dates: Richard Mead (1673-1754)
BKG Bio-tweet: George II physician; Foundling Hospital advisor; antiquarian (100,000 volumes); dedication to Mead of James’ Dict. by SJ
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Mead cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1; three additional citations were identified in the 1773 Dict., identified in bold italic below. SJ used the 1745 or 1747 edition of the Mechanical account of poisons, as the Introduction, which contains the quote for effervesce, did not appear in the 1702, 1708 or 1736 editions. This (1745) edition of Mead was issued two years after SJ wrote the Dedication to Mead in James' Medicinal Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. lists the following Mead items: 56 12. Mead de variolis [1747] .... ; 259 ...Mead, praecpta medica, 1751.]
Author name and dates: Richard Mead (1673-1754)
BKG Bio-tweet: George II physician; Foundling Hospital advisor; antiquarian (100,000 volumes); dedication to Mead of James’ Dict. by SJ
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Mead cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1; three additional citations were identified in the 1773 Dict., identified in bold italic below. SJ used the 1745 or 1747 edition of the Mechanical account of poisons, as the Introduction, which contains the quote for effervesce, did not appear in the 1702, 1708 or 1736 editions. This (1745) edition of Mead was issued two years after SJ wrote the Dedication to Mead in James' Medicinal Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. lists the following Mead items: 56 12. Mead de variolis [1747] .... ; 259 ...Mead, praecpta medica, 1751.]
- A mechanical account of poisons, in several essays. By Richard Mead, M. D. Coll. Med. Lond. & R.S.S. Physician to his Majesty. The third edition, with large additions. 1745, London : printed for J. Brindley, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; at the Feathers in New-Bond-Street; effervesce (p. xxxvii); certain (p.158; added in 1773 Dict.); immechanical (p.180; added in 1773 Dict.); service (p.54, inexact quote; Dict.: "That service may really be done, the medicine must be given in larger quantities." Mead's text discusses physicians being too cautious in prescriptions, and adds: "... that service really be done this way, the patient ought to eat frequently of viper gelly, or broth ...."; added in 1773 Dict.)
- Mead (no work cited);