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Doctor Carl Linnaeus Physician


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Most people know that Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is world-famous for the system of nomenclature he developed, still used by botanists and zoologists to this day. He is also known for his travels throughout Sweden and descriptions of the Swedish landscape, and for having inspired worldwide travel for scientific purposes by the chosen few who came to be known as the Linnaeus apostles. But it may be less well known that for most of his life he was a practising doctor of medicine.

This book tells the extraordinary story of this son of a Swedish country clergyman who had already written when still a schoolboy an advanced Notebook and others' reflections not only on nature in general, but on medicinal cures and the use of plants in alleviating sickness.

Carl Linnaeus qualified as a Doctor of Medicine in 1735 in the Netherlands with a thesis on malaria. His doctorate qualified him to teach Medicine, make professional visits to patients, write prescriptions and practise medicine everywhere. During this his only period outside Sweden he also took advantage of the opportunity to visit Europe's leading medical and botanical gardens, including Amsterdam's Hortum Medicum and London's Chelsea Physic Garden.

In 1738 he returned to Sweden to resume his official career as a practising physician, and in 1741 was appointed Professor of Practical Medicine in the University of Uppsala. He thus also became responsible for the botanical garden in Uppsala which he was able to use as the centre for his botanical research and teaching; plants of medicinal value were sent to this garden from every corner of the world.

The eighteenth century was an age poised between the ancient traditions of folk medicine and the tentative attempts of a new enlightenment at a more scientific approach to medical art. Epidemics still threatened to destroy whole populations in both town and countryside, and even a healthy person could die from a simple infection – a different world from our own even if so few generations away from us. It is in this context that the comments Carl Linnaeus noted down are still valuable in helping us who have come after him to understand mankind's eternal battle against illness, injury and death. His world, and the now forgotten specialist knowledge, still has something to teach us today.

Doctor Carl Linnaeus – Physician, is a scholarly tour of the less known side as a practising scientific medical man of a universal genius. It has been researched and written by the Swedish physician and writer Nils-Erik Landell. Born in Stockholm in 1935, Landell has published nearly fifty books in the field of natural and cultural history in addition to many scientific papers over a range of medical disciplines. He has been a committee member of the Swedish Linnaeus Society and is reckoned among today's greatest experts on Linnaeus.

The book is beautifully illustrated and enriched by a large number of authentic quotations from Linnaeus' own writings, most of them never originally intended for publication. As no. III in the Mundus Linnæi Series, it is of international importance to our understanding Linnaeus as a man, no less than to our understanding of the development of pharmaceutical and medical history. The Series as a whole incorporates new themes, forgotten stories, facsimile prints and original research by leading experts in general culture, the arts and natural history – all presented in beautiful and scholarly publications.

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Nils-Erik Landell, Physician.

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Writer/s: Nils-Erik Landell.
Language: English.
Series: Mundus Linnæi No: III.
Format: 127 x 208 mm, 304 pages.
Binding: Thread-stitched with soft paper cover.
Additional information: The volume include 39 illustrations, bibliography, references, facsimiles, and index.
Classifications: Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Medicine, Philosophy, Zoology.
Publication year: 2008.
Editorial:  Editor Lars Hansen, Translation by Silvester Mazzarella.
ISBN: 978-1-904145-14-1.

 

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Foreword
Introduction
Linnaeus The Physician – a Double Key to Medicine
Childhood Flowers
Eighteenth-Century Epidemics
The Comfort of the Herb Book
Upbringing
The Philosophy of Paracelsus, Alchemy and the Doctrine of Signatures
Linnaeus Decides to be a Doctor
Furia Infernalis – Linnaeus Near to Death
The Mysteries of the Decorated Cabinet and The Mysteries of Medicine
Bitter Winter
Symbolism
Prelude
Linnaeus Dedicated Himself to Botany
Linnaeus Learns the Pharmacist’s Art
Linnaeus and Rosén
Practical Medicine
The Falu Mine and Linnaeus’ Room
Linnaeus’ Landscape – Destination the Netherlands
The Netherlands, England and France
Indigenous Cultivation
Stockholm Practice
Linnaeus Escapes from the Navy
Vademecum – Follow Me
Materia Medica
The Origin of Mountains, Changing Species and Nature’s Economy
Happiness and Sorrow
A Double Key to Medicine
Linnaeus’ Own Illnesses
Index
Afterword
Bibliography
Sources of Illustrations
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