Ernest Reinhold Rost

He was a civil surgeon in Burma and worked at Rangoon Medical School where he was superintendent and a lecturer in surgery.

The serum was a liquid substance obtained by dissolving leprosy germs in a bouillon made from beef juice and distilled pumice stone.

[6] In 1907, Rost and his friend Col. J. R. Pain opened a Buddhist book shop on Bury Street near the British Museum.

[7] In November 1907, Rost and others founded the Buddhist Society of Great Britain and Ireland with Thomas William Rhys Davids as president.

The society published an early periodical, The Buddhist Review which reflected a scholarly approach to Buddhism.

In 1911 in an article for The Buddhist Review, he argued that use of the word is "opposed to its use in ordinary English, where it merely means abstract thinking".

"The Seven Wisdoms and the Eight Steps of Progress Towards Nibbāna", 1930