Besides the _Mechanical Account of Poisons_ (2nd ed., 1708), Mead published a treatise _De imperio solis et lunae in corpora humana et morbis inde oriundis_ (1704), _A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it_ (1720), _De variolis et morbillis dissertatio_ (1747), _Medica sacra, sive de morbis insignioribus qui in bibliis memorantur commentarius_ (1748), _On the Scurvy_ (1749), and _Monita et praecepta medica_ (1751). A _Life_ of Mead by Dr Matthew Maty appeared in 1755. MEAD. (1) A word now only used more or less poetically for the commoner form "meadow," properly land laid down for grass and cut for hay, but often extended in meaning to include pasture-land. "Meadow" represents the oblique case, _maédwe_, of O. Eng. _maéd_, which comes from the root seen in "mow"; the word, therefore, means "mowed land." Cognate words appear in other Teutonic languages, a familiar instance being Ger. _matt_, seen in place-names such as Zermatt, Andermatt, &c. (See Grass.) (2) The name of a drink made by the fermentation of honey mixed with water. Alcoholic drinks made from honey were common in ancient times, and during the middle ages throughout Europe. The Greeks and Romans knew of such under the names of [Greek: hodromeli] and _hydromel_; _mulsum_ was a form of mead with the addition of wine. The word is common to Teutonic languages (cf. Du. _mede_, Ger. _Met_ or _Meth_), and is cognate with Gr. [Greek: methu], wine, and Sansk. _mádhu_, sweet drink. "Metheglin," another word for mead, properly a medicated or spiced form of the drink, is an adaptation of the Welsh _meddyglyn_, which is derived from _meddyg_, healing (Lat. _medicus_) and _llyn_, liquor. It therefore means "spiced or medicated drink," and is not etymologically connected with "mead."