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it was actually adduced as one of the reasons for the
declaration of war.1
Passing on to Medicine, we meet with no lack of
material. The first physician in Sweden of Scottish birth
was the famous “ Lifmedikus ” (Royal Physician) of
Gustavus Adolphus and of Queen Christina, Jacobus
Robertsonius å Struan, so called from his birthplace in
Perthshire. Towards the end of the XVIth century he
came to Sweden and was appointed physician to the king.
In this position he must have shown great skill, for he
was overwhelmed with tokens of royal favour, so much
so that he confessed himself he ought to be the richest
man in Sweden if he had known how to manage. Now he
receives a house, now an estate, and now a garden on the
Schlossplatz; and what was more, the king not only
assisted him to open an apothecary’s shop, which he
licensed as the Schlossapotheke, but he also allowed him
the sum of 200 Thaler for “ medicamenta ” prescribed to
the queen or himself. Finally, he granted him letters of
nobility in 1630, after he had produced his birth-brief,
dated Edinburgh, 2nd July, 1630.
Robertson was not a man of an amiable character.
He was greedy, and constantly applied for new royal gifts;
his temper was bad ; his name is often before the
magistrates of the city; nay, he even disturbed the sanctity of
the Riksråd, where he appeared in great excitement to
complain of the libel of another doctor. In 1619 several
Stockholm citizens accused him of having vilified their
wives and daughters.1 2 We have already seen that one
1 Gahm8 Biogr. Sami.; Library, Upsala. Rönnow published Specimen
Talmudicum and Codex Ta/m. de estimationibiu sive Taxis legalibus at
Utrecht.
2 Kammer-Arkivet. Robertson was privileged to import all drugs free
of duty (1625).
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