a liquor prepared with honey and water. One of the best methods of preparing mead is as follows. Into twelve gallons of water put the albumen of six eggs, mixing these well together, and to the mixture adding twenty pounds of honey. Let the liquor boil an hour; and when boiled, add cinnamon, ginger, cloves, mace, and rosemary. As soon as it is cold, put a spoonful of yeast to it, and turn it up, keeping the vessel filled as it works; when it has done working, stop it up close; and, when fine, bottle it off for use. Mead is a liquor of very ancient use in Britain.

Dr. Richard, a celebrated English physician, was born at Stepney near London, where his father, the Rev. Mr. Matthew Mead, had been one of the two ministers of that parish; but in 1662 he was ejected for non-conformity, though he continued to preach at Stepney till his death. As Mr. Mead had a handsome fortune, he bestowed a liberal education upon thirteen children, of whom Richard was the eleventh; and for that purpose kept a private tutor in his house, who taught him the Latin tongue. At sixteen years of age Richard was sent to Utrecht, where he studied three years under the celebrated Graevius; and then choosing the profession of physic, he went to Leyden, where he attended the lectures of Pitecan, on the theory and practice of medicine, and Hermann's botanical courses. Having also spent three years in these studies, he went with his brother and two other gentlemen to visit Italy, and at Padua took his degree of doctor of philosophy and physic, in 1696. He afterwards spent some time at Rome and Naples; and then returning home, settled at Stepney, where he married, and practised physic with a success which laid the foundation of his future celebrity.

In 1703, Dr. Mead having communicated to the Royal Society an analysis of Dr. Bonomo's discoveries relating to the cutaneous worms that generate the itch, which they had inserted in the Philosophical Transactions; this, with his account of poisons, procured him a place in the Royal Society, of which Sir Isaac Newton was then president. The same year he was elected physician of St. Thomas's Hospital, and was also employed by the surgeons to read anatomical lectures in their hall, which obliged him to remove into the city. In 1707 his Paduan diploma for doctor of physic was confirmed by the university of Oxford; and being patronized by Dr. Radcliffe, on the death of that famous physician he succeeded him in his house at Bloomsbury Square, and also in the greater part of his business. In 1727 he was made physician to George II., whom he had served in that capacity whilst he was Prince of Wales; and he had afterwards the pleasure of seeing his two sons-in-law, Dr. Nichols and Dr. Wilmot, his coadjutors in the same eminent station.

Dr. Mead was not more admired for the qualities of the head than he was loved for those of his heart. Though he was himself a hearty Whig, yet, uninfluenced by party principles, he was a friend to all men of merit, by whatever denomination they might happen to be distinguished. Thus he was intimate with Garth, with Arbuthnot, and with Freind; and long kept up a constant correspondence with Boerhaave, who had been his fellow student at Leyden. In the meantime, intent as Dr. Mead was on the duties of his profession, he had an activity of mind that extended itself