John Floyer (physician)
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Early life
John Floyer was born on 3 March 1649. He was the third child and second son of Elizabeth Babington and Richard Floyer, of Hints Hall, a since demolished country house. Hints is a quiet village lying a short distance from Lichfield in Staffordshire.[1] He was educated at The Queen's College, University of Oxford.
Career
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 30 March 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.Template:Sfn
Personal life
Floyer was married to Mary Fleetwood of Lichfield, a widow, in April 1680.[2] Their son John Floyer (c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".1681–1762) was a Tory Member of Parliament for Tamworth from 1741 to 1742.[3]
He died on 1 February 1734.
Bibliography
- Pharmako-Basanos: 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 Humours 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 edition, 1698)
- The ancient psychrolousia revived, or an Essay to prove cold bathing both safe and useful (London, 1702; several editions 8vo; abridged, Manchester, 1844, 12mo) See online version below.
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- The Physician's Pulse-watch (1707–1710)
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- 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 edition, 1724)
- A Comment on forty-two Histories described by Hippocrates (1726).Template:Sfn
Notes
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References
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External links
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- 1649 births
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- 17th-century English knights
- Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford
- 17th-century English medical doctors
- 18th-century English medical doctors
- People from Lichfield
- People from Hints, Staffordshire
- Hydrotherapy advocates
- 18th-century English knights