Dr. Woodward's ghost. Occasion'd by a passage in Dr. Mead's preface to his treatise of the small-pox and measles, severely reflecting on that gentleman's memory. With an introductory discourse; by way of vindicating the doctor's character from the aspersions cast on him by his unmerciful antagonist. By Dr. Andrew Tripe, nephew to the late doctor

People / Organizations

• William Wagstaffe (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for Jeremiah Reason, in Flower de Luce-Court, Fleet Street, 1748 [i.e. 1747]

Added name

Mead, Richard, 1673-1754. De variolis et morbillis liber.; Reason, Jeremiah, bookseller.; Wagstaffe, William, 1685-1725, attributed name.

Publication year

1747

ESTC No.

T34914

Grub Street ID

265143

Description

[4], 8 p. ; 4°.

Note

Erroneously attributed to William Wagstaffe by the British Library Printed Catalogue. William Wagstaffe, who died in 1725, did use the pseudonym 'Andrew Tripe', but this work was written in response to Richard Mead's 'De variolis et morbillis liber' published in 1747

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