"Advice to a Young Physician" by Sir John Floyer MD (1649-1734) of Lichfield in Staffordshire

Denis Gibbs and Philip K. Wilson, eds. "Advice to a Young Physician" by Sir John Floyer MD (1649-1734) of Lichfield in Staffordshire. York: William Sessions Ltd., 2007. xviii + 156 pp. Ill. £15.00 (978-1-85072-363-9).

The editors of this small book tell us that "for over half a century, Sir John Floyer (1649-1734) practised as the only physician in the small cathedral city of Lichfield in the English midlands" (p. 1). Floyer is best known for his treatises on asthma, cold...