Timeline
Lifetime:
1673 -
1754
Passed: ≈
270 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Richard Mead
Books by Richard Mead
Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used to Prevent It
History
Non-Fiction
Science
Health & Wellness
18th century
France
Infection
Public health
Medicine
Disease
Plague
Quarantine
Epidemiology
Prevention
Sanitation
Contagion
Richard Mead's *Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion* is a landmark treatise on the 18th-century understanding of plague and its spread. Written in response to the outbreak in France, the book delves into the nature of contagious diseas...