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<titleStmt><title n="SciA1720"><title>A short discourse concerning pestilential contagion and the methods used to prevent it</title>
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<publicationStmt><p>Distributed as part of the Lampeter Corpus</publicationStmt>
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<idNo type="Lamp">T528/6498</idNo>
<date>1720</date>
<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
<printer>[Samuel Buckley]</printer>
<bookseller>Samuel Buckley; Ralph Smith</bookseller>
<pubFormat>octavo</pubFormat>
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<persName>Richard Mead</persName>
<birth><date>1673</date> Stepney (Middlesex)</birth>
<residence>Stepney; Utrecht; Leyden; visited Italy; Stepney; London</residence>
<education>University of Utrecht; University of Leyden; University of Padua: Doctor  of Philosophy and Physic (1695); Oxford: MD (1707)</education>
<occupation>physician; fellow in College of Physicians in London; lecturer; vice- president; censor; member of Royal Society</occupation>
<socecstatus>professions (medicine)</socecstatus>
<socecstatuspat>professions (clergy)</socecstatuspat>
<biogNote>Fellow of the Royal Society; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Whig; non- conformist</biogNote>
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