1 TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO, NO ONE HAD HEARD OF HAY FEVER…
That is not to say that people didn't suffer from the condition – it just wasn't medically recognised yet.
The English physician John Bostock (1772–1846) was the first person to accurately describe the malady. In 1819, he presented a study called Case of a to a group of physicians and surgeons at the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. In his talk, he described a patient with a “rather delicate” constitution who suffered from sneezing and itching during the summer months. Bostock referred to the patient using the initials “JB”, but
