Richard Mead, FRS, FRCP was an English physician. His work, A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it (1720), was of historic importance in advancing the understanding of transmissible diseases.
- Occupation
- physician, astrologer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- August 11, 1673
- Died
- February 16, 1754
