FLOYER, SIR JOHN , 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. He died on Feb. 1, 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 emphy sema.
His numerous writings include:-4apµaeo-Bheavos: or the Touch stone of Medicines ... (1687) ; A Treatise of the Asthma (1st ed., 1698) ; The ancient 'vxpoXoveta revived, or an Essay to prove cold Bathing both safe and useful (London, 1702; several editions; abridged, Manchester, 2844).