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Abhandlungen. His magnum opus, and an astonishing
proof of his industry, is his Apparatus Medicaminum, a
treasure-house for the future pharmacologists. He was
occupied with it no less than fifteen years, and yet he had
to leave the completion of the work to another hand.
Death surprised him when correcting proofs of the
tenth sheet of the sixth volume on the 22nd of May
1792. He is described as stern, ceremonious, obstinate, and
distant, having intercourse only with a few, and spending
all his spare time in his botanical garden, the treasures
of which he jealously guarded from visitors. He was
scarcely intimate with any of his colleagues, and still less
did the students like him. Besides being an honorary
member of many learned societies in Bern, Copenhagen,
Stockholm, Paris, Florence, etc., he was made a “Hofrath”
by the King of England, and Knight of the Vasa Order
by the King of Sweden.
Whilst the life of Johann Andreas properly belonged
to Germany, that of his younger brother Adolf was entirely
devoted to his own country. Born on the 15th of February,
1751, he could already, in 1764, be enrolled as a student
at Upsala. Such was his progress there that at the age
of seventeen he was appointed Prosector at Stockholm,
and commenced lecturing on anatomy two years later.
At twenty-one he became a doctor of medicine.
Astonishing as this precocity is, to himself it was probably
“ a present from the Danai,” and the cause of his early
death. The next years he spent in travelling, and in
visiting Göttingen (where he continued his studies under
Haller), Italy, and Paris. Owing to a most splendid
testimonial of Linné, in which he is called “ auditor
meus-conjunctissimus, præstantissimus, dilectissimus,”1 he was
1 The testimonial goes on to say: “Certissimus sum, quod ejus mores
8uavissimi candidissimi, me tacente, eum insinuabunt omnium animis quibus.
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