John Floyer

John Floyer

Sir John Floyer (March 3 1649 - February 1, 1734), English physician and author, was the third child and second son of Elizabeth Babington and Richard Floyer, of Hints Hall. Hints is a quiet village lying a short distance from Lichfield in Staffordshire [ [http://www.hints-village.com/jonfloy.html Sir John Floyer, M ] ] . He was educated at Oxford.

He practised in Lichfield, and it was by his advice that Dr Johnson, when a child, was taken by his mother to be touched by Queen Anne for the king's evil on March 30, 1714. As a physician, Floyer was best known for introducing the practice of pulse rate measurement, and creating a special watch for this purpose. He was an advocate of cold bathing, and gave an early account of the pathological changes in the lungs associated with emphysema.

Bibliography

*"Pharmako-Basauos: or the Touchstone of Medicines, discovering the virtues of Vegetables, Minerals and Animals,by their Tastes and Smells" (2 vols, 1687)
*"The praeternatural State of animal Hurnours described by their sensible Qualities" (1696)
*"An Enquiry into the right Use and Abuses of the hot, cold and temperate Baths in England" (1697)
*"A Treatise of the Asthma" (1st ed., 1698)
*"The ancient ~vxpoXoinyia revived, or an Essay to prove cold Bathing both safe and useful" (London, 1702; several editions 8vo; abridged, Manchester, 1844, 12mo)
*"The Physician's Pulse-watch" (1707-1710)
*"The Sibylline Oracles, translated from the best Greek copies, and compared with the sacred Prophecies" (1st ed., 1713)
*Two Essays:
**the first "Essay concerning the Creation, Aetherial Bodies, and Offices of good and bad Angels"
**the second "Essay concerning the Mosaic System of the World" (Nottingham, 1717)
*"An Exposition of the Revelations" (1719)
*"An Essay to restore the Dipping of Infants in their Baptism" (1722)
*"Medicina Gerocomica, or the Galenic Art of preserving old Men's Healths" (1st ed., 1724)
*"A Comment on forty-two Histories described by Hippocrates" (1726).

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External links

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=BSkAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA491&lpg=PA491&dq=leake+levett+burke's&source=web&ots=Cx404CV9Rp&sig=0heDnk5gz80AODMX6ViF3SC90cM&hl=en#PPA490,M1 Floyer of Hints, Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain, Bernard Burke, 1862]


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