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John Floyer (physician)

English physician and author (1649–1734)

Summary

English physician and author (1649–1734)

Field	Value
name	John Floyer
image	John Floyer cropped from Wellcome L0004264.jpg
caption	John Floyer. Credit: Wellcome Library
birth_date	3 March 1649
birth_place	Hints, Staffordshire, England
death_date
education	University of Oxford
occupation	Physician, author
spouse	Mary Fleetwood
children	John Floyer
parents	Richard Floyer
Elizabeth Babington

Elizabeth Babington Sir John Floyer (3 March 1649 – 1 February 1734) was an English physician and writer.

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. 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.

Personal life

Floyer was married to Mary Fleetwood of Lichfield, a widow, in April 1680. Their son John Floyer (1681–1762) was a Tory Member of Parliament for Tamworth from 1741 to 1742.{{cite web | access-date = 26 June 2014

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.
- Full text at Internet Archive (archive.org)
The Physician's Pulse-watch (1707–1710)
Full text at Internet Archive (archive.org)
See also: Sibylline oracles article.
Full text at Internet Archive (archive.org)
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).

Notes

References

[http://www.hints-village.com/jonfloy.html Sir John Floyer, M]
Foster, J.. (1891). "Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 : Their Parentage, Birthplace and Year of Birth, with a Record of Their Degrees : Being the Matriculation Register of the University". Joseph Foster.

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