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time, the wrong under which he suffered. This act 
of youthful effervescence enabled Rosen to give the 
final blow to Linnaeus. Charged with breaking the 
regulations against duelling, the authorities in 
Uppsala were unanimous in banishing him from the 
town. 
“ What was this youth, sent down from the uni¬ 
versity for violent conduct, with the piety and heart 
of a child, to do? 
“ Linnaeus went to hide his pain amongst Lap¬ 
land’s desert fells, and in spite of persecution, still 
laboured for science, from which people with ample 
means wished to exclude him. 
“ Returned from his travels, Linnaeus sought to 
obtain the newly-founded Medical Adjunctship at 
Lund; but his enemies were not idle. Rosen was the 
medical man at the same health resort where Count 
Karl Gyllenborg, Chancellor of Lund University, 
drank the waters. This circumstance Rosen em¬ 
ployed with great skill, and succeeded in snatching 
that morsel of bread from Linnaeus. Once again, 
and that the last time, Linnseus tried to obtain a 
living, this time as Docent; but Rosen did not rest 
even now. Through the archbishop, whose niece 
Rosen had married, he managed, by means of the 
Chancellor of Uppsala University, Count Cronhielm, 
to get a prohibition, SO' that no Docent should be 
taken on to the medical faculty. 
“ Thus it was thought that Linnaeus’s future would 
he hopelessly destroyed, and no Celsius appeared to 
rescue him. 
“ But when the need was greatest, help was nigh, 
and with reason this man, who constantly wandered 
amongst precipices, surrounded with hate and threat¬ 
ening dangers, took as his motto, ‘ Numen adest ,’ God 
is present. 
“ A letter from the Governor Baron Reuterholm 
proved Linnaeus’s salvation. It summoned him to 
the same province which formerly saved Sweden, etc.” 
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