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John Bostock – the first scientific description of allergy

The Lancet reported recently about the life of John Bostock, the famous author “Of the Catarrhus Aestivus or Summer Catarrh” in  the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions 1828; Vol.14: 437-446.

And I knew already that his grave is on the Kensal Green Cemetry in London. Although the description at findagrave is correct, I needed additional help of the cemetry – Ioannis Bostock (1773-1846) is buried in grave number 6263, square 102. It is a portland stone pedestal with an urn on it (he died of cholera) but the inscription is very faint after nearly 170 years and reads

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