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stored them, and they could afterwards enjoy their glass with the best. 

 This circumstance made a great impression on the jovial circles. His repu- 

 tation increased, and no physician was thought more able than LinNjEus- 

 in curing all perioral complaints. He was called to the lady of an aulic 

 counsellor, troubled with a cough. Linnaeus prescribed a remedy 

 which she could carry by her for constant use. This lady was one day at 

 court on a card party with queen Ulrlca Eleonora. While playing, 

 " she put something into her mouth. " What is this ?" asked the 

 Queen. — " A remedy against the cough, may it please your Majesty j 



I always find myself much relieved after using it." — The Queen had 

 a cough at that very time. Linnaeus was called, he prescribed the 

 same remedy, and the Queen's ailment disappeared. — Thus did the 

 cough first introduce him to court, and there advance his prosperity. 



The patron to whom Linn.eus stood indebted for his recent good 

 fortune, was that celebrated statesman Count Charles Gustavus 

 Tessin, who educated the late King of Sweden, and terminated his 

 meritorious career on the seventh of January 1770. He was well 

 versed in the sciences and a great lover of natural history. To his 

 attention and favour Szvedeji owes the display of the greatest genius- 

 which it ever produced. Linn^us always found in him the kindest 

 and most zealous proteftor, through whose interest he obtained all fur- 

 ther dignities and honours. To transmit the remembrance of those 

 benefits to posterity, he enumerated them in a public manner in the last 

 edition of his System of Nature, which he dedicated to this noble 

 friend. " He received me," says Linn^us, " on my return, when I 

 " was a stranger in my own country, he obtained for me a salary from 

 « the States, the appointment of physician to the admiralty, the profes- 

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