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REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES 



and most imperfect idea) in their alphabetical order, others from the 

 time of their duration, others from those parts in which they alfeBed the 

 human body, or agreeable to the causes of their existence and symptoms. 



According to this latter method the late professor De SAUVAGES,one 

 of the best friends of Ltnn/eus in France, published in 1739 a va- 

 luable work, which was highly embellished on subsequent occasions*. 

 But before ever Linn^us obtained any knowledge of this work, he 

 himself planned a systematic abridgment of nosology to serve him 

 in his ledures, published it 1759 as an academical dissertation, by the 

 tide of Genera Morhorum, and in 1763 as a separate work. 



The whole class of envious persons at Upal and in other parts of 

 Sweden, found it strange and heterogeneous at first, to see the botanist 

 LiNN^us appear on the scene as a pathologist. They made very merry 

 at his expence. But the goodness of his cause soon became trium- 

 phant. Dr. Rosen, his colleague, had long studied the Linn.ean 

 Genera Morborum, and a few. years after, used them as the standing 

 rule of his lefturest. 



" Of all men," says M. Vicq d'Azyr, " Linn^us should hav« 

 " been the last to write on subje8s which were foreign to him; be- 



cause he had recourse, to that spirit of detail, and to that aphoristic 

 ^< and figurative style, which were considered as- defeats even in those 

 " works which established his reputation 



• Nosologia Methodica, Monspel. 1739. A/nst. 1763, 5 vol. 8vo. — Farther augmented 

 Jmst. 1768, 2 vol. 4to. — Castigavit et auxit C F. Daniel, torn. iii. LipSi 1791.. 



f See LiNNiEUs's own words in the Supplements. 



J II etoit molns permis a M. Linne, qu'a tout autre d'eerire sur les objets, qui lui ^<oicnt 

 ttrangers ; paree qu'il portoit cet esprit de detail et de stile aphoristique et figure, que I'on J 

 xegarde come des defauts meme dans les ouvr^ges quiont etabli sa reputation. 



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