SIR

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• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)

JOHN

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• SIR JOHN FLOYER (1649-1734)

FLOYER (1649-1734)  , English physician and author, was born at Hinters in Staffordshire, and 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 the 3oth of March 1714 . He died on the 1st of February 1734 . Floyer was an advocate of cold bathing, introduced the practice of counting the rate of the pulse-beats, and gave an early account of the pathological changes in the lungs associated with emphysema . His writings include:-4'app.aso-Baoavos: 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 ed., 1698) ; The ancient ''vxpoXovoia revived, or an Essay to prove cold Bathing both safe and useful (London, 1702; several editions 8vo; abridged, Manchester, 1844, 12910) ; 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 o the World (Nottingham, 1717) ; An Exposition of the Revelations 1719) ; An Essay to restore the Dipping of Infants in their Baptism 1722) ; Medicine Gerocomica, or the Galenic Art of preserving old en's Healths (1st ed., 1724); A Comment on forty-two Histories described by Hippocrates (1726) .