A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used to Prevent It: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used to Prevent It, credited to Richard Mead, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used to Prevent It by Richard Mead. Read in English by Paul Mazumdar This is a work written about the plague in France and how to prevent its spread. It is considered an important historical work for the understanding of transmittable diseases. - Summary by afutterer

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used to Prevent It
• Author credits: Richard Mead
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 57:43

Catalogue topics

• Europe
• classic
• medicine
• plague
• medical

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction — 3:41
2. 02 - Part 1 of The Nature of Contagion — 18:04
3. 03 - Part 2 of The Methods to Prevent Contagion — 35:58

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