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have been for the young Northern Doflor, allowing him his usual 
spirit of liberality, to aspire at the honour of admittance. Notwith 
standing all these obstacles he obtained it last. He sent Boerhaave 
a copy of his new-published system. Eager to know the author of 
this work, who had likewise recommended himself by a letter, he ap- 
pointed Linnaus to meet him, on the day before his intended de- 
parture, at his villa, at the distance of a quarter of a league from 
Leyden , and charged Gronov to give him notice of his intention. 
This villa contained a botanical garden, and one of the finest col- 
leftions of exotics. Linn a; us pundually attended to the invitation. 
his ««r. One day, in an c„„on, sen. 
sation on divinity, especially on Spinosa, whom he called the Heret.c a whether 
h a a ve, who had long heard with s.lencc the rantmgs of tins strang , _ ’ Qn 
« he had ever read Sfinosa f”— “ the stranger answered in the negative , y P 
sent laughed at him. This man to avenge himself, called our ingenious enquire, : . 
which involved him in disagreeable disputes. Boerhaavb 
death, which happened in ,683, began to apply himself ^ 
in which he in the » 5 th year of his age, an d 
IsTppointed professor of Physic, at Leyden, in 170.. Here he remamed, 
most advantageous offers made him from abroad. H.s celebrity extended from Europe to 
other parts of the globe. He even received a letter from China duefted A Lillu 
Boerhaave, MeJeein en Europe. His school became the seminary of the greatest phys • 
Extremely aftive and plain, he was in other respeas a downright Dutchman. |S " 
wardrobe consisted of a couple of suits, which he used to wear till they became a 
His Dutch-built stature, his old shoes, his loose ha.r, and the large crab -sue was Qnc _ f 
always with him, made him pass for some person of a low description, *^ g 
the richest individuals at Leyden. He .off his 
.mwards of a million of florins. His necessitous circumstances, au b y 
" ,1 very parsimonious. He was, however, extremely beneficent to the poor At er having 
accumulated the greatest merits in medicine, and benefited ^mankind m general, he d,ed in the 
f his aoe on the 30th of September, 1738. bee the following works respefting 
70th year o of thfi life and writings of H. Boehaave, by Dr. Burton, Lund. 
Boerhaave ■ ^ SflutDEN » s Oratio Academicain memoriam H. Boerhaavu. Lugd. Bat. 
1746, o avo. • k Caraadre du Grand Medecin; ou eloge critique de M. H. 
X7'l8. octavo.-— . n._ T T_, 
/ nv- TVf Mat Y } ct Cologne* i747> ^ octavo* 
Boerhaave, (par M. matt; £ t Boerhaave 
