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2i8 REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES 
and most imperfeft idea) in their alphabetical order, others from the 
time of their duration, others from those parts in which they affeQed the 
human body, or agreeable to the causes of their existence and symptoms. 
According to this latter method .the late professor De SAuvACEs,one 
of the best friends of Linnaeus in France, published in 1739 a va- 
luable work, which was highly embellished on subsequent occasions*. 
But before ever Linnaeus obtained any knowledge of this work, he 
himself planned a systematic abridgment of nosology to serve him 
in his le&ures, published -it 1759 as an academical dissertation, by the 
title of Genera Morborum , and in 1763 as a separate work. 
The whole class of envious persons at Upsal and in other parts of 
Sweden, found it strange and heterogeneous at first, to see the botanist 
Linnjeus appear on the scene as a pathologist. They made very merry 
at his expence. But the goodness of his cause soon became trium- 
phant. Dr. Rosen, his colleague, had long studied the Linnjean 
Genera Morborum , and a few years after, used them as the standing 
rule of his leisures t. 
“Of all men,” says M. Vicq d’Azyr, “Linnaeus should have 
« been the last to write on subjefts which were foreign to him ; be- 
« cause he had recourse to that spirit of detail, and to that aphoristic 
« and figurative style, which were considered as defeats even in those 
« works which established his reputation J. 
* Nosologia Methodica, Mo..spel. 1739. Amst. 1763, 5 vol. Svo. — Farther augmented 
Amst. 1768, 2 vol. 4to. — Castigavit et auxit C. F. Daniel, tom. iii. Lip. 1791. 
See Linnaeus's own words in the Supplements. 
t XI etoit moms permis a M. Linne, qu’a tout autre d’ecrire sur les objets, qui lui etoient 
etrangers ; paree qu’ilportoit cet esprit de detail etde stile aphoristique et figure, que l’on a 
regarde come des defauts meine dans les ouvrages quiont etabli sa reputation. 
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