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i 4 6 LINNAEUS AT STOCKHOLM. 
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 Linn.* us 
in curing all peEloral 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 Ulrica Eleonora. While playing 
“ she put something into her mouth. “ What is this ?” asked the 
Queen. 44 A remedy against the cough, may it please your Majesty; 
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 Linnaeus stood indebted for his recent good 
Jortune, was that celebrated statesman Count Charles Gustavus 
i ESSiN, 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 Sweden owes the display of the greatest genius 
which it ever produced. Linnaeus always found in him the kindest 
and most zealous prote&or, 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. 44 He received me,” says LinnjEus, 44 on my return, when I 
il w as a stranger in my own country, he obtained for me a salary from 
44 the States, the appointment of physician to the admiralty, the profes- 
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