Dr. John Bostock

Dr. John Bostock (1773-1846) was born in Liverpool and educated at Edinburgh University, where he received his M.D. in 1798. His thesis was dedicated to William Roscoe of Liverpool. He returned to Liverpool and established his medical practice there. In 1817, however, he moved to London, and shortly thereafter published Account of the History and Present State of Galvanism (1818). Earlier he had authored Observations on Diabetes Insipidus (Liverpool, 1812), and On the Nature and Analysis of Animal Fluids (1813). Shortly after his arrival in London, he gave up medicine and turned to chemistry, physiology, and general science, publishing An Elementary System of Physiology (1824). He quickly became a member of the Royal Society and served as president of the Geological Society in 1826.