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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

The physician’s pulse-watch. 2 vols.

Publication Details

London: S. Smith & B. Walford, 1707 CE–1710 CE.

Before watches had hands to record the seconds, Floyer invented a pulse-watch which divided the minute. He was the first to count the pulse with the aid of a watch and to make regular observations on the pulse-rate. The second volume contains the first English translation of Cleyer’s book on Chinese pulse-lore, Specimen medicinae Sinicae. (see No. 6492).

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Geographic Context

Publication place: London