ADVENTURES OF LINNAEUS. 



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If LinNjEus had chosen to continue his leflures, he must have 

 taken his degree of doQor ; but this was not in his power for want of 

 money. He had more than enough to do to support himself. Amidst 

 these adverse circumstances, there was still one hope left for him. The 

 office of substitute professor of the university of Lund had become 

 vacant. He took pains to obtain this charge, and Stob^eus and other 

 professors supported his claims; his efforts proved, however, fruidessy 

 and another obtained that wished-for happiness. 



His situation now became as wretched as before, but his courage 

 and serenity continued the same. The consciousness of his eminence, 

 the remembrance of the darker but still more pleasant prospers of fu- 

 turity, the idea of his bold plan of reform which he still continued to 

 work upon, and the hope of a future comfortable subsistence, animated 

 his resolution and fortitude in combating adversity. 



These virtues allayed likewise the rigor of his fate. The former pupils 

 ofLiNN^us lamented his situation. Several of them resolved in the 

 year 1733 to make excursions in the mountainous countries, and they 

 put LiNN^us at the head of the enterprize, which had for its ten- 

 dency a farther knowledge of the mineral reign. This excursion ex- 

 tended to Garpenberg, Averstal} Bitzberg, and especially to Fahluny 



RosENSTEiN, and chose his coat of arms. He gained great celebrity as a physician to the 

 Royal Family of Sivedeiiy and received in the year 1769, for his inoculation of the small 

 pox at court, a reward of 100,000 rix dollars, from the states of tlie kingdom. His motto was, 

 Without Thorns, " Sine Sfinls." — In his last illness he requested the medical assistance of 

 LiNN^us. His country lost in him one of the greatest physicians. The academy of Stockholm 

 had a m.edal struck to his memory, with this inscription : Sacul'i decus indelib'ile nostr'i. He 

 published the Method of Curing the Diseases of Children, translated into German, English, 

 Dutch, French, and Italian ; also, A Medical Repository of Domestic Medicine for Families 

 and Travellers,. 



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