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Linnseus as Adjunct at Lund. Now if Rosen 
dreaded Linnaeus as a competitor for Rudbeck’s chair 
when it became vacant, would he not willingly have 
seen him settled at Lund, awaiting old Professor 
Dobeln’s resignation or death? 
It was widely known at this period that the medical 
faculty at Lund was in an unsatisfactory state. The 
University’s powerful Chancellor, Carl Gyllenborg, 
had, so far back as 1731 (that is, before he knew Rosen 
as a physician), sent in a humble memorial to the 
State Secret Committee, stating that Lund needed 
an Adjunct. This produced no result, but in the 
following spring, the Consistory was astonished to get 
a precept from the Chancellor, requiring them to 
appoint Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Adjunct in 
Medicine at Lund. As no funds were available for 
stipend, the Consistory was moved to permit him to 
receive a double Royal Scholarship. This was 
effected in May, 1732, and Wallerius remained in this 
post at Lund till 1741. He left on account of some 
unpleasantness, partly due to his delay in writing a 
disputation, partly due to his marriage. His first 
thesis did not appear till 1740, and in the next year he 
stood as a competitor against Linnaeus, as will be 
shown in due course. 
If it be asked, what share Rosen had in instituting 
the Adjunctship and in nominating Wallerius, it is 
evident that Count Gyllenborg’s decision was taken 
before Rosen came home. In the summer of 1731 
he was drinking the waters of Wiksberg, near Soder- 
talje, but that the newly arrived Rosen was physician 
there, is not certain, indeed hardly credible. It is, 
however, certain that when Gyllenborg was living in 
Stockholm, he was his medical attendant. That they 
conversed on medical topics and that Wallerius was 
recommended by Rosen may be regarded as correct. 
It thus appears, (1) that any measures for the 
post of a medical Adjunct at Lund was not granted; 
(2) that no such place could be allotted until vacant; 
