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like Haller, in which he recorded the principal occurrences of his 



life. Besides this, he had began to write a little work in 1733, which 

 he called Nemesis Divina; and in which he recorded as it were, 

 for his own warning, the punishments infiifted by Providence, and 

 those catastrophes and adversities which befel others, and which from 

 long experience, he had either foreseen or had a presentiment of„ 

 Over the door of the hall, in which he gave his leftures, was the follow- 

 ing inscription t ** Innocui ViviTE ! NuMEN Adest!" — " Live guilt ' 

 ^ less ! God observes you T-^-Ht conXdi never think on the wonderful 

 paths on which the Almighty had guided him without being moved, 

 and without thanking his Providence for all the proofs of his grace 

 and mercy. He concluded the traft which contains the occurrences 

 of his life with these words : " The Lord was with thee, where ever thou 

 « didst go, ^c. Be 



One of his celebrated pupils, the late Chevalier Murray of Goet- 

 tingen, when publicly announcing the death of his great teacher in 



1778, added the following illustration of his charaSer* " Every can- 



" did and impartial mind cannot but acknowledge how much natural 

 " history stands indebted to Linn/Eus for his writings, for his leQures, 

 " for his correspondence, for his most aftive zeal, and for sending the 

 « ablest pupils to all quarters of the globe ; and with regard to medicine. 

 " for fixing the solid basis of a successful praftice, and ascertaining the 

 " remedies. By the order, truth, precision and perfeftion, and the im- 

 " mediate application of theory to praQical use, which he introduced in. 

 *' his favourite science, he not only weaned his countrymen from a whim- 



* See J. A, Murray's Medico-praflical Library, Vol. Ill, Parti, Goettingen 177S, 

 Page 15. 



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