Richard Mead pdf The Medical Works of Richard Mead (Classic Reprint)

His acalemical (ludies I feing ftnifhed, he fet out upon hi travels to I taly, in company with his eldeft brother Mr. Samuel Mead, David Polhill, Efq; and Dr. Thomas Pellet, afterwards prefident of thfe ckillege of phyficians at London. In Italy hemet with every thing which could gratify and improve his exa6l and re Bned tade, for all that is great and beautiful: and how advantageoufly toJimfelf, as wejl a Jufefully to.the publick, he employed tiirtife Uther.e, his works bear ahiple teftimony. At Florence he had the curiofily to enquire for the Tabula I fiaca :but getting no information about it, he defired leave to fearch for it in a lumber foom over the gallery, where he found this valuable piece of antiquity, buried in dud and rubbi(h. He did the fame Service tp th Florcjitiiies upon this occa Hon, as Tully formerljf did the Syracufiai, .W hen he difcovered to them the tonitb of Archimedes a. At Padua he took the degree of do tor of philofophy and phyfick, in A uguft 1695 Pafterwards at Naples and Rome. Oh his return homq in 1.696, he fettled.in,th place of his birth; where he prafiifephyfick for fomc years with a fuccefs and fuperiority of iJ:l, which eftabl Uhed his reputation and laid the foundatioji Pif his future gfreatnefs. .., In 1702, he publifhed a Mechaniql Account of Poifoos, which work was fo well received, that.n ab Arad of it was inferted in the Philofophical Tranfadiofis bfor January and February 1703. It was reprinted in 1708, withfome additions; but;as it (lands in this colle lion, it is ken from the cditibn oF J747, which differed fo much from any of the former, that it might almoll be looked upon as a new performance. I n. his younger days he imagined, that he was able to account mechanically for the effe Ssof feveral poifons, by their mixture with the blood ;but he was afterwards convinced; that there is in all living creatures a vehic(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)