Letters from foreign lands . DR. THEODOR BILLROTH Vienna where he taught in the reaching Sweden our first importantstop was at Upsala. Here, in the univers-ity, the celebrated Linneus taught botanyand here he wrote his famous SystemaNaturae that revolutionized both zoologyand botany. Here, too, Scheele resided fora short time hoping for recognition fromthe university which he never Scheele and Linneus made their homesat Stockholm before moving to Upsala, andboth had to struggle against opposition andpoverty. By a lucky accident Linneus wonhis way to wealth and honor
Letters from foreign lands . DR. THEODOR BILLROTH Vienna where he taught in the reaching Sweden our first importantstop was at Upsala. Here, in the univers-ity, the celebrated Linneus taught botanyand here he wrote his famous SystemaNaturae that revolutionized both zoologyand botany. Here, too, Scheele resided fora short time hoping for recognition fromthe university which he never Scheele and Linneus made their homesat Stockholm before moving to Upsala, andboth had to struggle against opposition andpoverty. By a lucky accident Linneus wonhis way to wealth and honor, but Scheelesfull worth was not realized until he wasdead. While Linneus was striving to build 130 up a practice as a physician a lady-in-wait-ing upon the queen had heard of a prescrip-tion that had miraculously cured a coughand that he-4tad written. She called uponhim and got a copy of it. Fortunately itacted like a charm,1 and the grateful pa-tient told the queen of how she got cured ofjust such a cough as was troubling
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