Exhibition : Dr. Samuel Johnson and eighteenth century medicine , 5 January - 2 March 1984 / Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

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Credit: Exhibition : Dr. Samuel Johnson and eighteenth century medicine , 5 January - 2 March 1984 / Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 From an engraving by Cook after E. Stringer 1785. 2. Michael Johnson (1657-1731) Johnson's father, bookseller, bookbinder, and stationer. He also set up a small parchment factory. Among the books he published were the two by Sir John Floyer shown here. Engraving from the portrait by E. Finden. 3. Sir John Floyer (1649-1734) A treatise of the asthma. 2 ed. London: R. Wilkin and W. Innys. 1717. Floyer practised medicine in Lichfield for over fifty years. He was consulted by Johnson's parents and it is thought to have been on his advice that the two and a half year old Samuel was taken to London in March 1712 to be touched for scrofula by Queen Anne. Floyer's book on asthma (he was a sufferer himself) shown here was consulted by Johnson in his later years in an attempt to relieve his own symptoms but he came to the conclusion that his asthma, I think, is not of the same kind with mine, describing his own as constitutional and incurable. Of Floyer he said Sir John Floyer, whom the physical race consider as author of one of the best books upon it [asthma], panted on to ninety. 4. Floyer, Sir John The touch-stone of medicines. London: