John Floyer
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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[1]. 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.
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- 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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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.