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Dr. Richard Mead
The English physician Richard Mead was born in London in 1673. He studied in Utrecht, then Leiden, before graduating from the University of Padua. In 1696 he entered a medical practice in London.
Mead became a member of the Royal Society in 1703. He was then appointed to St. Thomas' Hospital. After the death of his colleague John Radcliffe in 1714, Mead attended the royal family; in 1727 he was appointed George II's physician.
Mead was crucial to the creation of the Foundling Hospital. He published a number of books and medical treatises.
Mead died in Bloomsbury in 1754. His house later was incorporated into the Great Ormond Street Hospital.