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 March 30 , 1714 . 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 .
- ''Pharmako-Basauos: 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 Hurnours 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 ~vxpoXoinyia revived, or an Essay to prove cold Bathing both safe and useful'' (London, 1702; several editions 8vo; abridged, Manchester, 1844, 12mo)
- ''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 of the World'' (Nottingham, 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'' (1st ed., 1724)
- ''A Comment on forty-two Histories described by Hippocrates '' (1726).
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