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at the bedside when the great naturalist passed away. 
During his stay at Uppsala he learned to speak 
Swedish fluently, and was one of the few who became 
friends with the younger Linne. On his return to 
England, he had a sharp exchange of words with 
Daniel Solander, when the latter called the young 
Linne “ a thoroughly worthless fellow/’ He wrote 
later, “At last it was with little better than mutual 
abuse, when we bade each other good-bye.” 
How he prosecuted his studies at Uppsala is now 
hard to say. It is, however, certain that he was a 
loyal listener to Linne’s lectures, passed the several 
stages of examination, and was promoted Doctor in 
1775. He fared so well at Uppsala, that though he 
had finished his course of studies, he stayed on, and 
his father wrote complainingly to Linne that his son 
would not come home. In the spring of 1778, after 
the death of Linne, he submitted a thesis “ De 
Variolis ” [On smallpox] soon after which, he returned 
to England and became Professor of Physic in the 
University of St. Andrews in Scotland. 
Friedrich Ehrhart takes a special place amongst 
the rest of the foreign pupils. He had not received 
any university training, but was dispenser at an 
apothecary’s in Hannover, when, attracted by some 
Swedish scientific writings, he determined to betake 
himself to Sweden. First he had occupation for six 
months at the Court Apothecary’s in Stockholm, where 
he found himself so happily placed, that “ if he had 
not left his dearest maiden in Hannover, he would 
have probably remained in the beautiful country of 
Sweden.” 
A desire to listen to the lectures of Linne and 
Torbern Bergman, drew him meanwhile to Uppsala, 
where he first served a year with the university 
apothecary, but afterwards kept himself for two and 
a half years, entirely free at his own expense, during 
which he became intimately acquainted with C. W. 
Scheele, T. Bergman, and many other eminent men, 
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