Excerpt from Linnaeus as a Physician Thenceforward his life was a continuous course of prosperity. He was greatly honored. Botany occupied his special attention in spring and summer; in the autumn and winter months he gave the more purely medical lectures. He gathered about him a larger circle of students and listeners than any one either before or after him has done; the number of students in the university rose from five hundred to fifteen hundred, and he shifted the scientific center of gravity to a small town in Sweden ...
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Excerpt from Linnaeus as a Physician Thenceforward his life was a continuous course of prosperity. He was greatly honored. Botany occupied his special attention in spring and summer; in the autumn and winter months he gave the more purely medical lectures. He gathered about him a larger circle of students and listeners than any one either before or after him has done; the number of students in the university rose from five hundred to fifteen hundred, and he shifted the scientific center of gravity to a small town in Sweden. Students flocked to hear him from Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Russia, England, and even from America. Adam Kuhn of Philadelphia spent the voars 1763-1765 in Upsala as student under Linnaeus, who regarded him with special favor. Kuhn, in 1768, became the professor of materia medica and botany in the College of Philadelphia. Where he gave lectures on materia medica for twenty one years When the College of Philadelphia, in 1791, united with the University of the State of Pennsyl vania to form the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Kuhn became professor of theory and practice of medi cine, continuing as such for six years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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