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w hours I had bestowed on it; but every corner resounded with the 
C{ humiliating lesson I had received from this Siecesbeck. I began 
M to set up for a practitioner, but my success was very slow. They 
w would not even employ me in a servant s cure. But in a short time) 
K adversity ceased to persecute, and after many clouded days, the lucid 
« sun broke through my obscurity. I rosg, — was called to the great, 
cc every thing turned out prosperous ; no patient could be cured with- 
« out me ; from four o’clock in the morning till late at night, I visited 
« the sick, spent nights with them, and earned money. Alas ! said I 
tt Aesculapius affords all that is good, but Flora yields but Sieges- 
« becks. I renounced botany, and resolved a thousand times to de- 
u stroy all my colleSions for ever. Soon after 1 was appointed first 
h physician to the fleet, and after a short lapse of time the States chose 
« me botanist to the King, and assigned me an annual salary to teach 
u that science at Stockholm *. I now grew fond again of plants, and 
« married my bride, who, after five long years, still thought me worthy 
« of her love. My father-in-law, however, is dearly fond ol money, 
« he does not like to part with it. For my own part I can do with- 
es out, and thus leave it to my offspring.” 
The cure of a long, and now, alas ! a fashionable distemper of a friend, 
which was effeCted in a fortnight, paved Linnalus the way to fortune in 
his praaice. This recovered patient recommended Linh^us as an able 
physician to his numerous acquaintance. Among these were several of the 
same description who complained of weakness in the breast, and abstained 
on this account from drinking wine. They applied to Linn a us, he re- 
* This salary amounted to one hundred ducats per annum, and was chiefly granted him as 
a reward for his learned exertions abroad. 
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