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everywhere received by the famous men of the time and
treated with great distinction. Voltaire hastened to put
on his gala uniform when called upon, and the Empress
Maria Theresa of Austria made him a present of books.
In 1774 he was appointed to the vacant chair of Anatomy
at Upsala, having declined a similar call to the Collegium
Carolinum at Cassel. His desire to see the world, not as
a curious traveller but as a scholar, was, however, not yet
quenched. He obtained leave for another journey, which
extended through Italy, Austria, Hungary, Prag, and
Dresden, and the scientific results of which he has
written down in a voluminous manuscript.
Having returned to Upsala, he commenced and continued
his professional duties with the greatest zeal, unweariedly
assisting the students and attending the sick. Already
since 1788 his health had become impaired, and four years
after his appointment as King’s Physician he died, as he
had foretold, from a rupture of a blood-vessel, on the
4th of May, 1803.
A great many essays, speeches, and “disputationes ” exist
from his hand, proving the close and indefatigable observer.
A family of Scottish origin which has risen to great
distinction in the medical and scientific world of Sweden
are the Gahns or Colquhouns. For centuries the
Colquhouns have been connected with the great
coppermining and smelting industries of Sweden which centre in
the little town of Falun. Already in 1568 we find a
William Kahun as a Captain in the Swedish service, and
of the sad fate of Peter Kahun in the Mornay Conspiracy
we have spoken above. But the direct connection of
these with the first Colquhoun in Falun has not been
established. A Walter Cahun established a
cannon-innotescat.” Datam Upsalæ 1772, Jun. 21. Cp. Sacklen, Lc., i.
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