CHAPTER IV 
THE LAST STUDENT YEARS AT UPPSALA—TRAVELS 
IN DALECARLIA (i 733~34) 
After the year 1732, which proved so momentous 
for Linnaeus, he continued a member of Uppsala 
University for two more years. There is no occasion 
to record how he employed himself in his professional 
medical instruction, except that it seems to have been 
of an entirely unsatisfactory character. One of the two 
professors, Rudbeck, was enjoying a prolonged 
freedom from his chair, engaged on his great 
philological work; the other, Roberg, was for six 
months in 1733, released from lecturing on account 
of his rectorship, and during the remainder of that 
year, he confined his instruction to materia medica, 
and (as the University lacked a chemical laboratory) 
to demonstrations in chemical operations, including 
fireworks, with useful experiments. By this time 
Linnaeus could not feel tempted by such a programme. 
Adjunct Rosen continued his anatomical lectures with 
energy and skill, but Linnaeus had already taken in all 
that was necessary, and he naturally did not attend 
the lectures in botany delivered by Rosen in the 
botanic garden during May and June. Clinical 
instruction was suspended, no doubt because of the 
academic hospital’s miserable condition. 
Under such circumstances Linnaeus spent all his 
time and his uncommon powers of work in scientific 
research, and in teaching natural history to students 
who desired to avail themselves of such help. In the 
former case, he devoted himself energetically to his 
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