floyer john sir (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Signed and inscribed by editor (Gibbs) on title page. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (near Fine). Pp. 156, illus with b&w photos (no other inscriptions).

2nd Ed. Corrected. [2],xxix,[1],208p. Signature L5 with minor marginal loss, browned, contemporary panelled calf, restoration work to corners, rebacked in modern plain calf with original gilt lettered label to spine. G & M 3166 (First Edition). 'Floyer himself suffered from asthma for over 30 years. He recognized the influence of heredity in asthma. The above includes p.239 (201 in our edition) an important early account of emphysema.' ESTC No T149465 'Dedication signed: John Floyer.' US$965.

8vo, pp. [xxiv], 264; rather browned throughout, but a good copy, complete with preliminary licence leaf from the College of Physicians; bound in old marbled boards, with new calf spine. First and only edition: this is the second book by the physician John Floyer (1649-1734). He had been educated at Oxford, and since 1675 had been settled at Lichfield, where in 1684 he was knighted by the King for political rather than medical services. He had clearly come to know the local bookseller Michael Johnson, who published his first work, Pharmako-Basanos, or the touchstone of medicines, in 1687, which is cited on the title page here. With this book, Johnson again seems to have commissioned the printing in London, and then published it himself, but this time with other London booksellers as outlets for distribution. Floyer must have been a familiar visitor to the Johnson home over many years, as when Samuel Johnson, the bookseller's elder son, was born in September 1709, and was found to be afflicted with scrofula, 'the King's evil', it was Floyer who recommended that he be taken to London to receive the royal touch from Queen Anne. Boswell tells us that in later life all that Johnson could recall of this was of 'a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood'; but of course the touch had no effect on the disease itself. Floyer dedicated this treatise to Sir Charles Holt, of Aston, Warwickshire. As Mark Jenner comments (p. 657), Floyer seems to have done much of his research among the country gentry of Warwickshire and Staffordshire (no doubt his knighthood opened doors for him). In the dedication, he remarks on Holt's 'Chymical Experiments', which 'have given me clear Notions of the Principles of many particular Bodies, and their Sensible Qualities, by Anatomical Dissections'. He also remarks on the usefulness of Holt's microscopes, which enabled him to observe 'more of the Consistence of Fluids than I could otherways have known'. Floyer himself suffered from asthma, of which Johnson also complained in the last year of his life: in July 1784 he wrote to Dr Brocklesby that 'I am now looking into Floyer, who lived with his asthma to almost his ninetieth year' (Life IV p. 353). There is no evidence that he owned any of Floyer's works, but he might have borrowed a copy of this book; however, it is true that Floyer also wrote a later book on the disease (1698, reprinted at least twice), and it is more probable that it was that treatise which he consulted. This book is one of a very small number of titles published by Michael Johnson, and it is distinctly uncommon. ESTC records twenty copies, but only five in North America at the Huntington, National Library of Medicine, Northwestern University, Countway Library (Boston) and New York Academy of Medicine. See Mark S.R. Jenner, 'Tasting Lichfield, touching China: Sir John Floyer's senses', in The Historical Journal, 53 (2010), pp. 647-70.

Fourth edition, 8vo, (xxii), 484 pp. Mild damp staining to the front and rear blanks only, upper hinge slightly cracked but sound. Contemporary panelled calf, spine with recent subtle repairs to joints and ends, red label, a very good copy. ".one of the most original physicians of the great scientific period in which he lived. His works show independence of thought and the spirit of research; while some have been important as being the starting-points of new methods in medical practice. Floyer did good service also by his advocacy of cold bathing. He showed that the Roman customs of bathing had been prevalent in Britain in former times, and attributed to their disuse the occurrence of many diseases" (DNB). First published 1702 as "The Ancient Psychrolousia Revived", itself preceded by "An Enquiry into the Right Use and Abuses of the Hot, Cold, and Temperate Baths in England" (1697).

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 232; blindstamped contemporary paneled calf, unadorned spine; extremities rubbed, short tear in B1 entering from the top margin; a good, sound copy, unrestored. Early ownership signatures of Josiah Pomeroy on the flyleaf, and G. Harriot on the title page. Sectional title pages for A Letter to the Rev. Dr. John Gibson . concerning the interpretation of Daniel's Prophecy, [London], 1726 which occupies pp. [199]-220; and separate title page for The Rev. Mr. Colson's Letter to Sir John Floyer, [London], 1726, occupying pp. [221]-232. Floyer (1649-1734) "was one of the most eccentric physicians of his time, and his works show great independence of thought as well as a true spirit of research" (Heirs of Hippocrates). He was the first physician to make regular observations on the rate of the pulse, was a powerful advocate of cold bathing, and was a pioneer in the field of geriatrics. He also gave the first description of emphysema.