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The Floral King. 81
urged the young Swedish doctor to publish his man-
uscripts. But Linnzus tried long in vain to see
the famous physician, chemist, and botanist, Dr.
Herman Boerhaave, for this celebrated man was
constantly besieged by visitors, so that many great
people even had to wait for hours in his ante-
chamber before they could be admitted.
A story is extant that even Czar Peter, [we
suppose, however, it was when he worked incognito
as a ship carpenter at Zaardam] had been’ kept
waiting two hours for an audience, for famous
though Boerhaave was, it is a puerile boast to say
he kept the Muscovite Czar waiting, had he known
who he was, and much less credible it is that
impetuous Peter would have brooked such an insult,
if it had been the learned and famous physician’s
desire to make royalty for once wait and dance
attendance upon science. Another anecdote tells of
a Chinese Mandarin having written a letter to him
only addressed ‘‘ Herr Boerhaave, famous Physician
in Europe.” Linnzus attended during eight days
in hopes to get an audience, and at last succeeded
in making himself known, which lately has been
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