{"id":6972,"date":"2014-04-22T20:49:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T19:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2024-02-23T08:58:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T06:58:34","slug":"john-bostock-the-first-scientific-description-of-allergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/04\/john-bostock-the-first-scientific-description-of-allergy\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bostock &#8211; the first scientific description of allergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanres\/article\/PIIS2213-2600(14)70022-0\/fulltext?rss=yes\">reported<\/a>\u00a0recently about the life of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Bostock_(physician)\">John Bostock<\/a>,\u00a0the famous author &#8220;Of the Catarrhus Aestivus or Summer Catarrh&#8221; in \u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsm.ac.uk\/welcom\/feature-bostock.php\">Medico-Chirurgical Transactions<\/a>\u00a01828; Vol.14: 437-446.<\/p>\n<p>And I knew already that his grave is on the Kensal Green Cemetry in London. Although the description at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=21820957\">findagrave<\/a> is correct, I needed additional help of the cemetry &#8211; 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<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> IOANNIS BOSTOCK MD.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140422_154405__DSC0102-2.jpg\" alt=\"20140422_154405__DSC0102-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140422_154405__DSC0102-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140422_154405__DSC0102-2-332x500.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140422_154405__DSC0102.jpg\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140422_154405__DSC0102.jpg\" alt=\"20140422_154405__DSC0102\" width=\"600\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140422_154405__DSC0102.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140422_154405__DSC0102-332x500.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 07.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancet reported\u00a0recently about the life of John Bostock,\u00a0the famous author &#8220;Of the Catarrhus Aestivus or Summer Catarrh&#8221; in \u00a0the\u00a0Medico-Chirurgical Transactions\u00a01828; 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 &#8211; Ioannis Bostock &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/04\/john-bostock-the-first-scientific-description-of-allergy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Bostock &#8211; the first scientific description of allergy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4850,4849,2580],"class_list":["post-6972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","tag-john-bostock","tag-kensal-green-cemetery","tag-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6972"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23293,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions\/23293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}