Author:John Floyer

Sir John Floyer
(1649–1734)

Sir John Floyer

Works

• ‘Φαρμακο-Bάσανος: or the Touchstone of Medicines, discovering the virtues of Vegetables, Minerals and Animals, by their Tastes and Smells (1687), in 2 vols.
• 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 (1698)
• The ancient psychrolousia revived, or an Essay to prove cold bathing both safe and useful (1702)
• The Physician's Pulse-watch (1707–1710)
• The Sibylline Oracles, translated from the best Greek copies, and compared with the sacred Prophecies (1713)
• Two Essays, the First Concerning the Creation, Ætherial Bodies, and Offices of Good and Bad Angels. The Second Essay Concerning the Mosaic System of the World Which Being Fully Explain'd, is Preferable to All Other Systems (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 (1724)
• A Comment on forty-two Histories described by Hippocrates (1726)

Works about Floyer

• "Floyer, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Floyer, Sir John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)