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hundred and fifty pounds. It re prefented a ferpent with 
feven heads, and had been figured as fueh by Seb^ in hiS 
Thcfaurus Nataraliuin. 
This celebrated monfter, upon an accurate exami- 
nation, and by his acquaintance with the comparative 
ftrudlure of the jaw-bones of animals, Linnasus found tq 
be an impollure ; and proved that thefe feven heads were 
merely made up of the jaw bones of We^fels artfully 
covered with the (kins of ferpents. A difcovery fo in-r 
jurious to its poffelfor and the credit of the univerfity, 
raifed a clamour againfl; the young naturalift, the fury of 
which he thought it prudent to avoid, through the advice 
of his friend Dr. Jaenifch, by filcntly leaving the city. 
Profecuting the objeft of his journey, he reached 
the Univerfity of Harderwyk in the end of May, and on 
the twenty-fourth of the fo lowing June was admitted 
Doaor in Medicine. His inaugural thefts was a differ- 
tation on the caufes of intermittent fevers, which in 
1^35 was publiflted in the Amxnitates Academics. 
From Harderwyk he proceeded to Leyden and formed 
an intimacy with Van Royen, who afterwards fucceedcd 
Boerhave, Van Sweiten, Leiburkhun, Lawson, and Crp;- 
novius. Among the caufes which contributed to enlarge 
the views and ripen the judgement of Litinsus, i»ay he 
reckoned the facility with which he made bimfelf knqwn 
and regarded by the moft learned men of his time- 
Wherever he came, he found a friend, and that friend 
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