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like Haller, in which he recorded the principal occurrences of his 
life. Besides this, he had began to write a little work in 1733, which 
he called Nemesis Divina; and in which he recorded as it were, 
for his own warning, the punishments infli&ed by Providence, and 
those catastrophes and adversities which befel others, and which from 
long experience, he had either foreseen or had a presentiment of, 
Over the door of the hall, in which he gave his leftures, was the follow- 
ing inscription: « Innocui Vivite ! Numen Adest!” — « Live guilt- 
“less! God observes you /’’-'-He could never think on the wonderful 
paths on which the Almighty had guided him without being moved, 
and without thanking his Providence for all the proofs of his grace 
and mercy. He concluded the trad which contains the occurrences 
of his life with- these words t. “ The Lord was with thee, where ever thou 
“ didst go,. ( 3 c. ( 3 c . 
One of his celebrated pupils, the late Chevalier Murray of Goet- 
tingen, when, publicly announcing the death of his great teacher in 
1778, added the following illustration of his chara&er* .« Every can- 
“ did and impartial mind cannot but acknowledge how much natural 
“ history stands’ indebted to Linn m us for his writings, for his leftures, 
« for his correspondence, for his most a&ive zeal, and for sending the 
“ ablest pupils- to all quarters of the globe; and with regard to medicine, 
« for fixing the solid basis of a successful pra&ice, and ascertaining the 
“ remedies. By the order, truth, precision and perfeflion, and the im- 
“ mediate application of theory to praftical use, which he introduced in 
« his favourite science, he not only weaned his countrymen from a whiim 
* See J. A. Murray’s Medico-pra£tical Library, Vol. Ill, Part I. Goettingen lyji, 
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