John Bostock (physician)

John Bostock, Jr. FRS (baptised 29 June 1773, died 6 August 1846) was an English physician, scientist and geologist from Liverpool.

[1][2] Bostock was a son of Dr. John Bostock, Sr.[2] He spent some time at New College at Hackney where he attended Joseph Priestley's lectures on chemistry and natural philosophy,[3] before graduating in Medicine at the University of Edinburgh[4] and practising medicine in Liverpool.

[5] In 1819, Bostock was first to accurately describe hay fever as a disease that affected the upper respiratory tract.

[5] Bostock died of cholera in 1846;[4] He is buried in the Kensal Green Cemetery, London.

[5] He also collaborated with Henry Thomas Riley on a translation and annotation of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, which was published posthumously.