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REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES 
DOTES.— THE FAMILY OF LINNAEUS. — LITERARY EMINENCE OF ONE OF HIS 
DAUGHTERS.— HIS PECULIAR PREDILECTION FOR HIS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER 
HER BIRTH.— ANECDOTE.— EXTERNAL APPEARANCE OF LINNjEUS.— HIS KNOW. 
LEDGE OF LANGUAGES.— HIS LATIN.— ANECDOTES.— THE CHARACTER OF LIN- 
NAEUS.— HIS HABITS AND USAGES.— HIS ZEAL IN NATURAL PURSUITS.— HIS PAr! 
SIMONY.— HIS BENEFICENT AND GENEROUS CONDUCT TOWARDS HIS PUPILS.— 
ANECDOTES.— HIS LOVE OF FAME.— HIS COAT OF ARMS.— HIS RELIGIOUSNESS. 
STRICTURES RESPECTING LINNAEUS BY THE CHEVALIER MURRAY.— LINNaEAN 
ANECDOTES BY FABRICIUS. 
We have thus far considered Linnaeus mostly in the light of a bo- 
tanist. But this was not the only title which distinguished his fame. 
He had renounced medicine as a pra&itioner, but as a theorist this 
science derived the most essential benefits from his exertions. The 
knowledge of diseases, (pathology ) — their remedies or cures (Materia 
Medica ) — and the instruftions how to preserve health by means of a 
regular choice and judicious use of meat and drink, (Dietetic)— consti- 
tute the three principal branches of physic ; they are steps of know- 
ledge which must be ascended by physicians if they wish to acquire 
fame and eminence in their profession; and Linnaeus acquired cele- 
brity and extensive merit in those three different branches of medical 
science. 
We shall first take a view of his merits in the Materia Medica. The 
best and most numerous remedies are drawn from the vegetable reign. 
It is the chief arsenal in which Nature preserves her store of arms 
against maladies. The animal and mineral reigns are but sparingly 
provided with them. The accuracy or inaccuracy of the knowledge 
of herbs and plants determine, therefore, the application of the me- 
dicines which are prepared from them ; they determine also, in a great 
measure, the restoration or sacrifice of affli&cd humanity. As long as 
botany 
