Authority Cited: Floyer
Author name and dates: John Floyer (1649-1734)
BKG Bio-tweet: Physician; prolific author: pulse rate measurement, cold bathing; advised Johnson be touched by Q. Anne for scrofula
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: all of the Floyer citations appear to be from the title below; the majority of cites refer specifically to Floyer on the Humours]
Author name and dates: John Floyer (1649-1734)
BKG Bio-tweet: Physician; prolific author: pulse rate measurement, cold bathing; advised Johnson be touched by Q. Anne for scrofula
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: all of the Floyer citations appear to be from the title below; the majority of cites refer specifically to Floyer on the Humours]
- On the Humours SIR JOHN FLOYER. The Preternatural State of Animal Humours Described by Their Sensible Qualities, which depend on the different degrees of their fermentation and the cure of each particular cacochymia is performed by medicines of a peculiar specific taste, described : to this treatise are added two appendixes I. About the nature of fevers and their ferments and cure by particular tastes, II. Concerning the effervescence and ebullition of the several cacochymia's; on which all Inflammations, Tumours, Pains, and Fluxes of Humours depend, especially those in the Gout and Asthma; and the particular Tastes of the Medicines curing Ebullitions are described; by the author of Φαρμακο-Bάσανος [the Touchstone of Medicines]. 1696 , London, Printed by W. Downing for Michael Johnson [SJ's father] and are to be sold by Robert Clavel, Sam. Smith and Benjamin Walford in St. Paul's ChurchYard (also noted by Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.152); anchovy; anticonvulsive; insipid (p.53 per Wimsatt) (about 51 cites in vol. 1); leaven; leak (about 52 cites in vol. 2)
- Floyer (no work cited)
