. Glimpses of medical Europe. Botany and turn the laughon Professor Rosen. While Linnaeus was able to make hisdepartment in the University of Sweden themost famous in the world, and to keep foreignnations and learned societies busy in con-ferring medals and degrees upon him, he wasnever able to classify his own little homeherbarium. His wife was reported to be givento frivolity and dissipation, and, notwith-standing the fame of her husband, she wasfinally denied admission to the Court. Thefive children of these two incompatibles wentfor the most part the way of the mother,although one daughter
. Glimpses of medical Europe. Botany and turn the laughon Professor Rosen. While Linnaeus was able to make hisdepartment in the University of Sweden themost famous in the world, and to keep foreignnations and learned societies busy in con-ferring medals and degrees upon him, he wasnever able to classify his own little homeherbarium. His wife was reported to be givento frivolity and dissipation, and, notwith-standing the fame of her husband, she wasfinally denied admission to the Court. Thefive children of these two incompatibles wentfor the most part the way of the mother,although one daughter made some importantexperiments in plant life, and a son, whonever did anything out of the ordinary, suc-ceeded Linnaeus at the University. 50 UPSALA Linnaeus was apparently a man who shouldnot have married, for he did not have thehappy faculty of mixing emotion with intel-lect, and it was undoubtedly his neglect ofhis wife that caused her to seek companion-ship in those whose knowledge was lesscryptogamous than her House of Linn^.us We found the medical department of theUniversity of great interest. There are abouta hundred and sixty students of medicine here,and their needs are amply provided for. It isinteresting to compare some points in the med-ical training here with those at home. Take,for instance, the course in pathology. Thestudent here has pathology rubbed into him 51 MEDICAL EUROPE for three years, and he can get more if hewishes. There is a large building devotedwholly to pathology. It contains lecture-rooms, museum, post-mortem room, and nu-merous rooms for individual research. Thereare two professorships in this subject. UlrikQuensel, wdio is chief of the department, is apleasant man to meet. He has a pleasingsmile and a nice little way of throwing backhis head when he laughs, which he does fre-quently. All the time he was showing usabout he held tenaciously to the butt of asmall cigar. There was perhaps two centi-metres of it in all. Occasionally he w
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