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utmost kindness and consideration; in 
Sweden he met with coldness and neg¬ 
lect. It was true he was affectionately 
welcomed home by his immediate friends 
and relatives : but he had no patrons to 
forward his views ; and he was still too 
poor to marry. He commenced the 
practice of medicine at Stockholm, as 
the only means of obtaining support. 
But, notwithstanding all the celebrity 
he had acquired, he met with little suc¬ 
cess. Several causes probably con¬ 
spired to produce this unfavourable re¬ 
sult. There was a strong prejudice 
against employing, as a medical attend¬ 
ant, a person who was supposed to have 
devoted almost all his attention to the 
study of botany, rather than to tbe 
healing art. 
Besides this, bis great scheme of bo¬ 
tanical reform, which was a complete 
innovation on long-established opinions, 
raised many opponents; some of whom 
