This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1748 Excerpt: ... O N T H E SMALL POX AND MEASLES, B Y RICHARD MEAD, Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians at London and Edinburgh, and of the Royal Society, and Physician to His Majesty. To which is annexed, Atreatise on the fame Diseases, by the celebrated Arabian Physician ABU-BEKER RHAZES. The-Whole translated into Englisty under the Author's Inspection, By THOMAS S TACK, M. D. F. R. S.. LONDON, t Printed for John Brindley, Bookseller and Stationer to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wa Les, in New Bond Street. ' M DCC XLVIII. PREFACE. A Considerable part of this Discourse was written by me many years since; and the whole had been finished and given to the Public long ago, would the business of my profession, in which I have been constantly engaged, have allowed me time to do it. However, I flatter myself that this intermission of the work will in the main turn to the advantage of the reader: because whatever inconveniences may attend age, they are for the most part amply compensated by daily acquisitions of knowledge and experience. Wherefore, without farther apology, I shall now briefly lay down the motives, which first induced me to write on this subject, A 2 In In the year 1717 the learned Dothr Freind publifhedthe first and third books of Hippocrates's Epidemics, illustrated with nine Commentaries concerning Fevers. Of these the seventh treats of purging in the putrid sever, which follows upon the confluent Small Pox; and in support of his opimon he has annexed to it the letters of four physicians to himself on that subje&y one of which is mine, tor after having heenfeveralyears one of tfoephysicians to St. Thomas's Hospital, in the year 1708/ observedy that some of my patients recovered from a very malignant fort of Small Poxy even beyond expectationy ...