A critical commentary on Dr. Richard Mead’s plague treatise.
This volume, published in 1721, serves as a rigorous yet accessible interpretation of Richard Mead’s influential work on pestilential contagion. It scrutinizes his theories of disease transmission—via air, infected individuals, and contaminated goods—and questions the empirical basis for quarantine, pest‑houses, and other preventive strategies.
Ideal for readers of epidemiology, public health history, outbreak investigation, and theoretical medicine, it explores themes of disease transmission, surveillance systems, host and environmental risk factors, and early public health intervention methods.
An insightful lens on early‐modern infectious disease theory and the birth of preventive medicine.
