FLOY'ER, Sir donx (1649-1731). An Eng lish physician and scholar, born at Lichfield. got his education at Queen's College, oxford. and was knighted about 1686. Ile invented the pulse-watch, and his work on asthma was im portant, as it gives the first description of ,m physema of the lungs. Ilis works on other subjeets than those mentioned include: The Touchstone of lledicines (16s7 .90) ; Pr, 1, r natural State of the Animal Humors (10111 ; The Sibylline Oracles (1713) : A l'indiraTion of the Sibylline Oracles (1715) ; Essays on the Creation and on the Mosaic System (17171; Mediein• Cerosronlira (1724) ; and A Coinntort on Forty-two Histories Described by Hippocrates in. his 'Epidemics' (1726).
FLtfCKIGER, Fna:nincit (1828-94). A German pharmacognosist. Ile was born at Langenthal. Switzerland, and was educated at. Berlin, Bern, Geneva. and Heidel
berg. Tie was president of the Swiss Association of .1pothecaries from 1857 to 1866, and professor of pharmaeognosy at Bern (1870-73) and St rass burg (1873-92). lie was also a member of the commission appointed to revise the pharmacopwia of the German Empire (1881-88). As a writer also he exerted a far-reaching influence upon the development. of the science with which he was so long prominently identified. Among his chief publications may be mentioned: Pharmakognosic des Pllanzenreichs (3d ed. 1891) ; Urandbigrit der Pharmakognosic (2(1 ed. 1885) : Pharmaco graphia : A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin Met with in Great Britain and British India, with Ilanbury (2d ed. 1879) ; Pharmaccutischc Chemie 12d ed. 1888) ; Grand riss der Pharmakognosic (2d ed. 1894).