48 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS, 
Bible of Gustavus Adolphus, in the year 1618, and was the 
author of the celebrated ‘ Privilegia queedam Doctorum,” 
the production of which, in the year 1636, very nearly 
proved his ruin. His son Olaf Rudbeck, born 1630, 
studied at Upsala, and in 1652 held a disputation there 
on the circulation of the blood, and afterwards made dis- 
coveries in anatomy which he rendered public in 1653. 
In this year he travelled into Holland, but soon after 
returned to Upsala, where he was, in the year 1658, ap- 
pointed professor of medicine. As an aid in this study 
he had previously established a botanical garden, into 
which he introduced many rare plants from distant places, 
and thereby afforded an astonishing example of the capa- 
bilities of a northern climate. 
